Causes of the American Revolution

This act placed taxes on sugar and molasses

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

• Molasses Act

This stated that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris

Colonists felt they should not be taxed without a representative in Parliament. What slogan did they use to voice this opinion?

• Free the colonies

• No taxation without representation

• No more taxes

• Let us in the Parliament

Colonists organized this group to write letters to Parliament and organized protests and boycotts

• Stamp Act

• Sons of Liberty

• King George

• representatives

A tax on all papers including newspapers, magazines, and playing cards

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

A refusal to use certain goods or participate in certain activities

• Parliament

• representative

• boycott

• smuggling

This act said that the British East India Company was the only company the colonists could buy tea from.

• Sugar Act

• Coercive Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Tea Act

The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw tea overboard in an event called

• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act Congress

5 colonists were killed when the British soldiers fired into the crowd after snowballs and rocks were thrown at them.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress

• French and Indian War

This act closed Boston Harbor and strengthened the quartering act.

• Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Sugar Act