There were a whole bunch of events that took place that may be considered precursors to the American Revolution. It is hard to define what caused such an event without taking into account the whole and it still gets confused. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/c1TeVr_GU8I related: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wVV29iLhpj4qpESTRDU80i1 ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Alan Axelrod, America’s Wars (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002), 69-161. https://amzn.to/2NHcLOa America at War: The Macmillan Compendium (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 37-84. https://amzn.to/2uaLkEd Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! An American History, vol.1, 2nd ed. (2005; New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 167-200. https://amzn.to/2mSz4UU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_Alarm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Peace_Conf