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 owe money
What is debt?
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?
Make laws
What Parliament?
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 a Patriot?
The number of colonies during the American Revolution.
not telling the full truth, trying to persuade others
What is propaganda?
What is the Boston Massacre?
The leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
Someone loyal to the king
Who are the Loyalists?
tax on paint, glass, tea, and paper. Soldiers were allowed to search colonists' homes
What is the Townshend Acts?
What is representation?