Causes of American Revolution

Acts!

100

This act placed a tax on sugar, wine, indigo, cloth, and coffee.

The Sugar Act

200

This act allowed the East India Trading Company to sell tea for a cheaper price in the colonies.

Tea Act

300

This act taxed all paper goods.

The Stamp Act

400

This act was a tax on tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper that colonies imported,

Townshend Act

500

This act was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. They prohibited trade, local meetings, and made colonists quarter British soldiers in their homes.

Coercive or Intolerable Acts

Vocabulary

100

This is money that people pay to their government in return for a service.

a Tax

200

This means to be free of control by another country.

Liberty

300

This means to cancel a bill or act.

Repealed

400

 This means to give food or shelter.

Quarter

500

This means to refuse to buy or use a product (think Sons of Liberty)

Boycott

Dates

100

This was the year the Treat of Paris was signed and the French and Indian War came to an end.

1763

200

This was the year the Stamp Act was created.

1765

300

This was the year of the Boston Massacre (Double points if you give the correct day and month.)

 March 5, 1770

400

 This was the year of the Boston Tea Party (Double points if you give the correct day and month.)

December 16, 1773

500

This was the year of the First Continental Congress (Double points if you give the correct day and month.)

December 5, 1774

Important Events

100

This was a war between France and Britain over the Ohio River Valley. 

French and Indian War

200

This was a protest where the Sons of Liberty threw tea in the protest of the Tea Act.

The Boston Tea Party

300

This was a chant that the colonist came up with to protest the taxes coming out of Britain.  

"No Taxation without Representation"

400

This was a meeting of delegates from each colony in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts. 

The First Continental Congress

500

This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

Lexington and Concord 

Important People

100

This man was the king of England during the American Revolution.

King George III

200

This man was the leader of the Continental Army and went on the become our first president.

George Washington 

300

This man went on a midnight ride to war soldiers before the battle of Lexington and Concord.

Paul Revere 

400

This man is known as one of the worst traitors in American history. 

Benedict Arnold 

500

This mans most famous quote is "give me liberty, or give me death."

Patrick Henry