Causes of the American Revolution
The war that caused the British to go in debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
What is The Tea Act?
to refuse to buy or support something
What is boycott?
This act was a tax on print materials such as legal documents, magazines, and newspapers to name a few.
What is The Stamp Act?
Products coming into AND out of a country.
What are imports and exports?
The British did this in order to repay the debt from the French and Indian War.
What is tax the colonists?
During this event, people dressed as Native Americans and boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
Another word for liberty.
What is freedom?
This was a British tax on sugar created to raise money to pay for the expenses of the French and Indian War.
What is The Sugar Act?
To gather together.
What is assemble?
The riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The colonists' saying to show it was unjust for them to pay taxes because they had no representation in Parliament.
Money paid to the government for goods.
The colonists dumped millions of dollars worth of tea here.
What is The Boston Harbor?
The settlement of people in a foreign country that is ruled under another country.
What is a colony?
Name four taxes/acts that the British forced on the colonies.
What are the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Townshend Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts?
The French and Indian War was fought between _______________ and ________________.
What is France and Britain?
Who are the French and British?
What is independence?
Being in charge of yourself
The number of colonies during the American Revolution.
Statement that you make about something. The colonists wrote this when they announced their independence from Britain.
What is a declaration?
What is the Boston Massacre?
The leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
The act of revolting or standing up for yourself and against your oppressor, a big change.
What is a revolution?
A meeting of representatives of the American colonies to make a plan of action in regards to how they were being treated by Britain.
What is The Continental Congress?
Independent armies are called this.
What are militias?