Events+Leading+Up+to+the+War

=__The Road to Independence__= =Before the American Revolution, there was tension between the British and the colonists. However, many events took place before the first bullet was shot.=
 * ** ﻿King George III wanted the colonists to help him pay the expenses of the French and Indian war, so he decided to raise their taxes .He also passed laws, or acts, that would also affect the colonists in a negative way. **


 * ** The Proclamation of 1763 was a law stating that colonists could not move west of the Appalachians.[[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQo5L6-NHe8MnOURijzqlP6ratPizpE7HqB7HBTtYEsqd--Yajc width="286" height="176" align="right"]] **


 * ** The Stamp Act of 1765 placed tax stamps on various kinds of paper, such as newspapers and magazines. **


 * ** Many colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and objected to being taxed by the British without representation in Parliament. Therefore, some colonists held a Stamp Act Congress in New York City to discuss the Stamp Act. They decided that Parliament coud not pass laws affecting the colonies because colonists had no representation in Parliament. **


 * ** As a result, of the Stamp Act Congress, the British passed the Townshend Act of 1767, placing taxes on tea, paper, paint, and glass. **

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 * ** Some rebelling colonists formed a club called the Sons of Liberty . Their duty was to break into the houses of tax collectos and beat them and burn the tax stamps. The British sent soldiers to aid the tax collectors and demanded that colonists allow the soldiers to live in their homes. [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXOPW-ZA7j_0OMbXr7uLZ_ZwTpgQFckCm3dJ2UApo_Vyp-1uUyXQ width="166" height="205" align="right" caption="Sons of Liberty"]] **
 * **The Boston Massacre of 1770 was the first real battle between the British and the American colonists.**
 * **During the Boston Tea Pary of 1773, the British told the British East India Company that it did not have to pay taxes when exporting tea to Britain, meanwhile all the other tea traders were required to. The colonists rebelled by refusing to buy or unload tea from Britain. Some men from the Sons of Liberty threw crates of tea overboard British ships in Boston Harbor.**
 * **The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the Tea Party and the Boston Harbor was out of service until the cost of the tea was fully paid for.**


 * **The First Continental Congress met in 1774 and decided to attempt to force the British to withdraw the acts.**
 * **Minutemen, or soldiers, of New England began preparing for war against the colonies.**

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=__Bibliography__=
 * Huff, Archie Vernon Jr. The History of South Caroling in the Building of the Nation. Capital City Publishing Enterprises. 2006.**
 * The American Revolution. [] war/american revolution.htm.5 Dec 2010.**
 * The History Place - The American Revolution: Prelude to Revolution- 1763-1775. [] Dec 2010.**