American Revolution Dbq

Britain was in serious debt from the French and Indian War. King George III also wanted to increase his loyal army which would further Birtish debt. It was the new prime minister, George Grenville, who wanted the colonists to help pay for it. To do so, Parliament passed four pieces of legislation: The Sugar Act (1764), the Currency Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), and the Quartering Act (1765). This is the beginning of colonial resistance to imperial legislation. “The American Revolution grew out of Britain’s attempts to draw its American colonists more closely into the imperial system” (164). Colonists challenged Britains supreme Parliament by debating that these pieces of legislation violated British governments constitutionalism. The colonists also rejected the Townsend Revenue Act (1767) slowly but surely. The Townshend Acts taxed import duties on lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea. Charles Townshend thought that colonists would not reject an external tax since revenue would be used to support colonial officials. Yet colonists feared that British government would become tyrannical. This is where the idea of Republicanism came into play. The British, after much resistance, repealed all …show more content…
An accidental consequence is a more adequate title. Radicals feared the Tea Act (1773) as rumor spread that it was a way to trick the colonists into being taxed without representation. This led to the dumping of 90,000 lbs of tea into the Boston Harbor. What we recognize today as the Boston Tea Party (1773). As a consequence, Parliament passed five new bills: the Boston Port Bill, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, a new Quatering Act, and the Quebec Act, in order to penalize Boston and Massachusetts. The dissaproving colonists knew these bills as the Intolerable Acts (1774). This led to the First Continental Congress (1775) where colonist paved the grounds for the first national