William Prescott At The Battle Of Bunker Hill

The american Revolution lasted a total of eight years, from 1775 to 1783. “Don’t fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, composed by William Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Battle of Bunker Hill is just one of the many causes of the American Revolution. Three main causes of the American Revolution include the Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable/Coercive acts, the first and second continental congress meetings and the Declaration of Independence.

To lead off the Boston Tea Party was just one example of the colonists protesting because the british put a tax on tea, even though the cost on tea was actually cheaper the colonist were sick all the taxes. People of all backgrounds and ages dumped 340 chests of tea into the boston harbor. some dressed as indians to disguises there identity because they were committing treason. The intolerable acts, also known as the coercive acts, were a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colonists as a direct result Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts forced the boston harbor to closed to trade ships until the tea was totally paid for.
In the first meeting they met to discuss how to combat the Intolerable Acts. They did so by producing the suffolk resolved, which included several laws regarding the Intolerable Acts such as these. The Intolerable Acts became illegal and appointed Massachusetts in the direction of becoming a free state, and created a boycott of british goods and trade with british. In the second meeting John Adams proposes a continental army, George Washington was elected commander and chief for the army. Six months after the thought of a continental army, it was