Causes of American Revolution Review

Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Adams were similar in that both women —

• wrote a history of the American Revolution

• worked to persuade people to support the Patriot cause

• served in the First Continental Congress

• acted as spies behind the British lines for General Washington

According to the theory of mercantilism, the principal purpose of the 13 colonies was to provide Great Britain with ​ (a)  

• raw materials and markets
• workers and manufactured goods
• naval bases

– Passed a series of laws in response to the Boston Tea Party
– Passed the a law that allowed for the quartering of troops in private homes
– Contributed to the calling of the First Continental Congress

Which of the following is described above?

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Intolerable Acts

– Lived in Boston, Massachusetts
– Silversmith
– Minuteman
– Member of Sons of Liberty– Warned the colonists of the approaching British army in the Battle of Lexington & Concord (a)  

• Paul Revere
• Crispus Attucks
• Samuel Adams

What was the MAIN purpose of boycotts in colonial America?

• to protest taxation without representation

• to disrupt trade with foreign nations

• to prove the effectiveness of home rule

• to decrease the power of English merchants

Match the following

• Quartering Act

• 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

• Intolerable Acts

• 1767 - A tax that the British Parliament placed on everyday items, such as leads, glass, paint and tea.

• Townshend Act

• 1774 - Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party, such as closing the Boston Harbor, limiting colonial self-government and instituting a curfew.

• No taxation without representation

• Colonial slogan that reflected their belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament.

• Stamp Act

• 1765 - Law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

A famous slogan, popular during the American Revolution, was: “No taxation without representation.”

This slogan referred to taxes enacted by —

• New England town meetings

• 
  colonial assemblies of the thirteen colonies

• the Parliament of Great Britain

• the First Continental Congress

The line that was setup by the British that forbids any movement/settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered many colonials, who felt that the current space was too crowded, and that they had every right to move if they desired as they were not consulted its passage. ​ (a)  

• Proclamation Line of 1763
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped 342 crates of valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• French and Indian War

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

In an effort to stop increasing violence, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763 in which he stated that colonists were now​ (a)   into these new territories. The "line" was drawn along the ​ (b)   . This greatly angered the colonists who felt they had earned the right to move into this newly acquired land.

• prohibited from expanding
• forced to expand
• Appalachian Mountains
• Rocky Mountains