AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR FACTS

EDU 133 – COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION

Miss. Gonzalez
February, 2023

INTRODUCTION 3- Prior to the end of the

It is April 19, 1775 and
standing across the village
common from each other in
Lexington Massachusetts
British soldiers and American
colonist have their rifles
pointed at each other; they are
about to fire the first shots of
The end of the French and
Indian War and the resulting
removal of French forces from
much of North America led to
the colonist not depending as
much on Great Britain for
protection. Beyond actual
events that caused the
American
French and Indian War
Brittan pretty much did not
interfere with the American
colonist and were very lax
with many of the regulations
that were in place. This
British policy was dubbed
salutary neglect. This all
changed after the French and
Indian War and the need of
the British to raise money to
pay their war debts. The
colonist resented this
interference.

the American Revolution. FACTORS LEADING TO 4- A cultural movement took

THE AMERICAN place in Europe in the late
The French and Indian War, REVOLUTION 1600s and 1700s called the
fought between Britain and the 1- The men and women who Enlightenment. Writers
French along with their Indian colonized the New World did involved in this movement
allies, from 1754 to 1763 left so because they desired such as John Locke wrote
England deeply in debt. Great opportunity for themselves about such issues as limited
Britain won the war but now and their kids and desired a government and consent of
needed to raise revenue to pay level of freedom. They were the governed. This movement
its war debt. This would lead generally not the type of influenced the thinking of
them to start levying taxes on people who would tolerate many of the founding fathers
the American colonies. The these things being taken away as they began to seek liberty
levying of these taxes were from them. and freedom from the control
some of the main events that of the
led up to the war as you will 2- The formation of colonial British.
see in the list below. "No legislatures gave the colonist
taxation without a feeling of independence
representation" was the main from British rule in that they
rallying cry of the rebellion. were able to pass their own
laws and muster troops.