If You Give a Mouse a Revoloution

If You Give
A Mouse A
Revolution
By: Luke Matthews
Prologue
Leading up to the Revolutionary War there were many conflicts

that occurred between the Colonists and the British. Each of
these had their own great effects but when they were put
together, they created the spark that caused the Revolutionary
War.
Sugar Act
April 1764
The Sugar Act was passed by the British

Parliament to try to stop the smuggling of
sugar and molasses from the French and
Dutch West Indies into the colonies. It was
a reinstatement of the Molasses Act of
1733. This caused a monopoly on sugar in
the American market because the colonial
farmers were growing the sugarcane, but
the British Government was selling it back
to the colonists.
Stamp Act
March 1765
The Stamp Act was the first direct attempt by Britain to

make revenue by directly taxing the colonies. The Stamp
Act taxed all colonial commercial and legal papers,
newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. John
Adams wrote “We have called this a burdensome tax,
because the duties are so numerous and so high, and the
embarrassments to business in this infant, sparsely
settled country so great, that it would be totally
impossible for the people to subsist under it, if we had no
controversy at all about the right and authority of
imposing it…We further apprehend this tax to be
unconstitutional. We have always understood it to be a
grand and fundamental principle of the constitution that
no freeman should be subject to any tax to which he has
not given his own consent, in person or by proxy.”
Townshend Acts
June 1767
Series of four acts passed by the British Parliament to assert what it
considered to be its right to exert authority over the colonies.
The Suspending Act prohibited the New York Assembly from conducting
any further business until it complied with the financial requirements of
the Quartering Act (1765) for the expenses of British troops stationed
there. The second act often called the Townshend duties or the Revenue
Act, imposed direct revenue duties. Duties aimed not merely at
regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury. The third
act established strict and often arbitrary machinery of customs collection
in the American colonies, including additional officers, searchers,
spies, coast guard vessels, search warrants, writs of assistance, and a
Board of Customs Commissioners at Boston, all to be financed out of
customs revenues. The fourth Townshend Act, known as the Indemnity
Act, was aimed at enabling the East India Company to compete with the
tea that was smuggled by the Dutch. It lowered commercial duties on
tea imported to England by the East India Company and gave the
company a refund of the duty for tea that was then exported to the
colonies. Compensating for the loss of revenue brought about by the
Indemnity Act was another reason for the imposition of the Townshend
duties.
Boston Massacre
March 1770
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of

volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and
angering an entire colony. The event occurred because of
growing tensions between Boston colonists and English
Parliament. Following the end of the French and Indian War,
Great Britain began to levy taxes on her colonies to defray the
cost of the expensive war. However, colonies who had
overseen taxing themselves began to openly resist Great
Britain. Decades of self-rule and benign neglect had many
colonists feeling their liberty was being stripped away by their
mother country. Boston was the home to some of the most
radical opponents and largest protests.
Tea Act
May 1773
An act to allow a drawback of the

duties of customs on the exportation
of tea to any of the colonies or
plantations in America; to increase
the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at
the India Company's sales; and to
impower the commissioners of the
treasury to grant licenses to the East
India Company to export tea duty
free. The shipments became a symbol
of taxation tyranny to the colonists,
reopening the door to unknown future
tax abuses. Colonial resistance led to
the Boston Tea Party in which tea
was dumped into the ocean.
Intolerable Acts
May 1774
Laws passed to punish the

Americans after the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Port Bill, which closed
Boston Harbor. The Massachusetts
Government Act, which replaced the
elective local government with an
appointive one and increased the
powers of the military governor.
The Administration of Justice Act,
which allowed British officials
charged with capital offenses to be
tried in another colony or in England.
The Quartering Act, which permitted
the requisition of unoccupied
buildings to house British troops.
Quartering Act
March 1774
The quartering act of 1774 was
an act by British parliament that
allowed the soldiers to live in
the private homes of the
colonists. It required the
colonists to provide hospitality
for the soldiers with no
compensation.
1st Continental
Congress
September 1774
A meeting of 12 delegates
from the colonies. The
meeting was in response to
the intolerable acts. They
also created a colonial list of
grievances, and unified the
rebellion against Great
Britain
Quebec Act
October 1774
The Quebec Act expanded
Quebec’s territory borders,
allowed religious freedom
for the Catholics, and
established the rule of a
governor and council
without a colonial assembly.
Increased colonial tensions
with the British.
Lexington and Concord
April 1775
American victory. The British marched

into Lexington and Concord intending to
suppress the possibility of rebellion by
seizing weapons from the colonists.
Instead, their actions sparked the first
battle of the Revolutionary War. The
colonists’ intricate alarm system
summoned local militia companies,
enabling them to successfully counter the
British threat.
2nd Continental Congress
May 1775
Between the conclusion of the First

Continental Congress in October
1774 and May 1775, tensions
between parliament and the
colonies were increasing.
Parliament sent over additional
troops in April 1775 to capture
stockpiles of weapons from
Lexington and Concord. A month
later the Second Continental
Congress met in Philadelphia to
discuss the increased tensions.
While tensions were still high,
congress discussed remaining loyal
to the British crown.
Olive Branch Petition
July 1775
The Olive Branch Petition

was a letter sent by the
2nd continental congress to
King George III. It sought
peace and expressed
loyalty to the king while
asking for support on the
grievances. The king
rejected it declaring
colonies in rebellion.
Common Sense
January 1776
Common Sense was a pamphlet
written by Thomas Paine that argued
America become its own country and
separate from Great Britain. It argued
for self governance as opposed to a
monarchy. It persuaded many
colonists to join the revolution.

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Leading up to the Revolutionary War there were many conflicts

The Sugar Act was passed by the British

The Stamp Act was the first direct attempt by Britain to

On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of

An act to allow a drawback of the

Laws passed to punish the

American victory. The British marched

Between the conclusion of the First

The Olive Branch Petition

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