Causes of the Revolutionary War

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(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

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French and Indian War

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A tax in the colonies on sugar and molasses

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Sugar Act

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Required certain colonies to provide food and living quarters (housing) for British troops

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Quartering Act

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Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies; forced colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper products

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Stamp Act

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A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

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Sons of Liberty

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British law that established new taxes on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint imported into the colonies.

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Townshend Act

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incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

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Boston Massacre

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Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies; upset colonial tea merchants

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Tea Act

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A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

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Boston Tea Party

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A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the Tea Act

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Intolerable Act