Causes of the American Revolution
The war that caused the British to go in debt.
What is the French and Indian War
Which Act forced colonists to allow British soldiers to stay in their homes?
The Quartering Act
Required American colonist to house and feed British soldiers
Quartering Act
What does boycott mean?
to refuse to buy or support something.
On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies formally did this
What is declared Independence from England.
What did the British do in order to repay the debt from the French and Indian War?
They taxed the colonies.
During this event, people dressed as Native Americans and boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
If you were a "Son of Liberty" during the Revolution, would you be a patriot or loyalist?
Patriot
A tax on all imported goods in the colonies
Townshend Acts
*Triple Jeopardy*
What document influenced the American colonists to declare independence
Common Sense
The riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers
the Boston Massacre
*Double Jeopardy*
What was the Proclamation of 1763
King George III ban on American colonists to prevent them from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
Tea Act
What the American colonists didn't have in the British government and become one of the foundational principles of American government
Representation
A meeting of representatives of the American colonies to discuss all the thing Britain is doing in the colonies
The First Continental Congress
Name four Acts that the British forced on the colonies.
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Townshend Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts
The French and Indian War was fought between _______________ and ________________
The French and British
Who was the leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War?
King George III
Used to incite fear, anger, and resentment during the American Revolution especially with the publication of the Boston Massacre paper
Propaganda
Series of acts that were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
How many colonists died during the Boston Massacre
5 people
What does "No taxation without representation" mean?
The colonists saying/slogan because they had no one to defend their interests in the colonial government or Parliament.
Who did the colonists choose as their Commander of the Continental Army
George Washington
Loyalist
What is a colonist who supported Great Britain during the American Revolution
This was the first battle of the American Revolution
The Battle of Lexington & Concord