Events Leading to the Revolutionary War (Part 1)

Episode 005, Events Leading to the Revolutionary War (Part 1), reviews events that lead to the American Revolutionary War. This episode will discuss:

• The French and Indian War

• The Sugar Act

• The Currency Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Quartering Act

• The Townshend Acts

We will end this episode by touching on the Boston Massacre, an event that united colonials and added to the list of reasons for independence from Great Britain.

References

• Free

  • Stamp Act

  • Sugar Act

  • Currency Act

  • Townshend Acts

• Amazon

The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

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