American Revolution: Summary And Analysis

There were a number of things that led to the American Revolution. Some of these included the Proclamation of 1763, acts passed by the British Parliament, and the Boston Massacre. From the end of the Seven Years’ War up until the American Revolution, the colonies and the British went back and forth. Every action taken by the British resulted in the colonies reacting in opposition. After the Seven Years’ War, the colonies believed that they could settle in the land that the British had gained (Davidson, DeLay, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff, 2015). This however led to Pontiac’s Rebellion (Davidson et al., 2015). The rebellion was led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac (Davidson et al., 2015). He assembled attacks on British forts and, with the help of other Indian tribes, they seized every British fort west of Detroit (Davidson et al., 2015). Pontiac’s Rebellion caused for more colonists to dislike the Indians (Calloway,
To do this, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, better known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts (Davidson et al., 2015). The first Coercive Act was the Boston Port Bill that closed the harbor until the colonies paid back the East India Company for all of the tea (Davidson et al., 2015). The next act to be passed was the Massachusetts Government Act (Davidson et al., 2015). This act meant that royal officials would be running the colony of Massachusetts (Davidson et al., 2015). The Impartial Administration of Justice Act, the third of the Coercive Acts, stated that if a royal official was implicated in Massachusetts, the trial would be held either in England or in another colony (Davidson et al., 2015). The last of the Coercive Acts, the Quartering Act, affected all of the colonies (Davidson et al., 2015). This act gave permission to British troops to use unoccupied homes and other buildings for housing (Davidson et al.,