Causes of the American Revolution

A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint, and tea

• Boston Tea

• Patriot

• Townshend Acts

• French and Indian War

Law passed by parliament undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

A law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Housing Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Tea Party

Forced colonists to pay for dumped tea, close the port at Boston and imposed military rule over Massachusetts.

• Mayflower

• Ohio River Valley

• Native American

• Intolerable Acts

Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence

• King George

• First Continental Congress

• Parliament

• John Adams

Organizations that led protests, helped American soldiers, instated a boycott, and resist the British.

• Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty-

• Parliament

• Continental Congress

• Townshend

England's legislative body.

• Town Act

• Parliament

• Sugar Act

• Patriot

American colonist who remained loyal to England.

• Loyalists

• Townshend

• Patriots

• Boston Tea

American colonists who refused to respect the authority of England's government.

• Boston Tea Party

• Patriot

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

A protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston harbor

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Loyalists

• Stamp Act