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The American Revolution · The Road to War

Causes of the Revolution

How thirteen colonies came to rebel. From the debts of the French and Indian War through the Stamp Act, the Townshend duties, the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, to the Intolerable Acts that drove the colonies toward independence — the road to revolution, year by year.

1754
The chronology begins
4
Stages of crisis
16
Key events
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