Unit 4: Causes of American Revolution

Forced colonists to house and feed British troops

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Housing Act

• Townshend Acts

Boston Tea Party

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First Continental Congress

Battle of Lexington & Concord

Second Continental Congress

Which event is missing?

• Coercive Acts

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Tea Act

• Boston Massacre

The purpose of this was to persuade King George to make peace with the colonies

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Lexington & Concord

• Second Continental Congress

This act lowered the tax on molasses the colonists imported

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts all are...

• people living in Great Britain

• laws passed by colonial assemblies

• factors leading to the American Revolution

• opponents of the American REvolution

The purpose of this was proclaim independence and to explain why separation from Britain was necessary

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Brain Petition

• Coercive Acts

• Lexington & Concrd

Why did Parliament repeal the Stamp Act?

• They were intimidated by the colonial protests

• The King agreed that only colonial assemblies could tax the colonists

• Businesses in Britain lost so much money

• They didn't need the tax money anymore

Choose all of the outcomes of the Boston Massacre (3)

• Samuel Adams put up posters to describe it as a slaughter of innocent people

• Forced the British to send more troops to Boston, which led to more debt

• Other colonists used the killings as propaganda

• Paul Revere made an engraving that showed a British officer giving the order to open fire

Choose all of the decisions made by the Second Continental Congress (3)

• Created the Continental Army with George Washington in charge

• Created committees to handle relations with Native Americans and foreign nations

• Authorized the printing of money & created a post office

• Made George Washington the President of the colonies

Choose all of the outcomes of the Tea Act in 1773 (3)

• It raised taxes on tea so high that members of the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

• It removed some but not all of the taxes on tea, making it less expensive for colonists

• The Daughters of Liberty issued a pamphlet declaring that they would rather part with their tea than their freedom

• Gave British East India Company nearly total control of the market for tea in the colonies.