Causes of the American Revolution

Match the following...

• Stamp Act

• Required colonists to purchase a special stamped paper for every legal document.

• Boston Massacre

• Conflict between colonists and soldiers that resulted in the death of five colonist protesters.

• Townshend Act

• Tax on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint and paper.

• Boston Tea Party

• Form of protest

• Boycott

• Protest of the Tea Act

Match the following

• to give food and shelter

• Stamp Act

• colonists who wanted freedom

• Quartering Act

• colonists who supported the king

• Quarter

• tax on all paper products

• Loyalist

• colonists had to fee & house troops

• Patriots

Match the following

• tax on molasses, coffee, sugar

• Boston Tea Party

• colonist threw tea into harbor to protes

• Townshend Acts

• tax on legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards

• Sugar Act

• tax on items like paint, lead & glass

• Stamp Act

Who said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

• Mercy Warren

• George Washington

• Patrick Henry

• Paul Revere

Who is the leader of the Son's of Liberty.

• Samuel Adams

• King George

• Crispus Attucks

• Benjamin Franklin

Who was the famous American-African colonist killed in the Boston Massacre?

• Thomas Paine

• Paul Revere

• Harriet Tubman

• Crispus Attucks

True or False: The Proclamation of 1763 said colonists could not settle west of the Mississippi River.

• True

• False

What was the British soldier's nicknames?

• Red Shoes

• Crab Backs

• Red Coats

• Blue Sweaters