Causes of the Revolution
Name the Act
People
Locations
Colonists Respond
Propaganda
Vocabulary
100
What is cause #1?
The French and Indian War
100
Put in place to cover the cost of fighting the French and Indian War
The Stamp Act
100
Fought for the British in the French and Indian War, later becomes the 1st US President
George Washington
100
Where Britain focused their efforts to stop colonial protesting
Boston
100
The name of the event when people boarded three British ships and smashed and dumped the cargo into the harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
100
What act did this protest?
The Stamp Act
100
A tax on goods imported from another country
tariff
200
What is cause #2?
Taxes
200
Put a tax on items that were not produced in the colonies
The Townshend Act
200
Published the Join or Die propaganda
Benjamin Franklin
200
The second successful settlement, done by the pilgrims.
Plymouth
200
The rallying cry of the colonists during their opposition to the British policies.
No Taxation Without Representation
200
What was this trying to get colonists to support?
The French and Indian War
200
These people were not slaves but were not free as they had to work off a debt in the colonies in order to be free
Indentured Servant
300
What is cause #3
Protests
300
Allowed a soldier to occupy an "empty" location.
The Quartering Act
300
The King of England/Britain during the American Revolution
King George III
300
This colony was massively increased in size to stop the 13 colonies from expanding West.
Quebec
300
Information that the colonists sent out that was biased or misleading in nature, and was used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
300
What event does this depict?
The Boston Massacre
300
The Colonists used this as a form of protest to financially hurt the British
Boycott
400
What is cause #4?
Boston
400
The names of the acts that Britain passed as a response to the Boston Tea Party.
The Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
400
Silversmith who created the image depicting the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere
400
The first successful British settlement
Jamestown
400
What the colonists were storing large amounts of in Lexington and Concord.
Weapons and munitions
400
What event is depicted here?
The Boston Tea Party
400
These are the large farms in the South where tobacco was grown and where slave labor was relied upon
Plantation
500
What is causes #5 and #6
The Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts and Lexington and Concord
500
Allowed Britain to put British officials accused of a crime in the colonies on trial in Britain and not the colonies.
The Administration of Justice Act
500
Considered the first person killed in the American Revolution
Crispus Attucks
500
Where British soldiers were looking for weapons and munitions
Lexington and Concord
500
They supplied the colonists with smuggled tea
The Dutch/Netherlands
500
What is happening in this image?
British official is being tarred and feathered
500
This Act allowed British soldiers to occupy an empty building
Quartering