THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAUSES EFFECTS SUMMARY
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Effect:Colonists were angered and began repeating ____ “no taxation without representation!”
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Effect:The Committees of Correspondence were formed to spread information more quickly and protest British policies.
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Effect:Colonists boycotted British goods, and sales of British goods went down.
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Effect:The Boston Massacre resulted in the deaths of 5 colonists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Townshend had two reasons for introducing new taxes into Parliament. He wanted to collect money from the colonies, but he also wanted more power for Britain. His idea was to use the taxes to pay the colonial governors.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Townshend Acts also caused a tax for glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Cause: Britain still needed money, but they needed a way to tax the colonies “without offense.” Effect: The colonists boycotted British goods again. Effect: Once again angered the colonists.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Townshend Acts’ taxation of imported tea was enforced once again by the Tea Act 1773, and this led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in which Bostonians destroyed a large shipment of taxed tea. Parliament responded with severe punishments in the Intolerable Acts 1774.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.