2.1 Causes of the Revolution

2.1- Causes of the Revolution

By Tessa Frazier

Multiple Choice

Look on your 1.1 notecards for "Mercantilism" for the following question

How did Mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the military

• By limited the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries

Salutary Neglect was the British policy to avoid enforcing laws in the American Colonies, THis led to the colonies creating their own governments

French & Indian War

War between the British and French colonies

Britain won

Left Great Britain in a lot of debt

Multiple Choice

The British Government was in debt.. What is the main method of income for governments?

• Selling cookies in the form of a fundraiser

• taxing citizens on various products

• selling land off to competing countries

• King selling his prized jewels

Proclamation Act of 1763

• Passed after the French and Indian War

• Prevented the British colonists from settling passed the Appalachian mountains

Multiple Choice

British Colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they-

• Feared it would provoke attacks from American Indians

• did not want to share control of the fur trade with france

• resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion

• wanted to be able to trade freely with foreign nations

Taxation without representation

• First Parliamentary tax placed on the British colonists after the French and Indian war

• Tax on paper product

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Organized a boycott on British paper where colonists refused to buy British Paper Products

Coined the phrase “no taxation without representation"​

Make a ORANGE card

Civil Disobedience (Orange 15)

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines. as a peaceful form of political protest.

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Multiple Choice

which of the following best completes this diagram?

• colonists sought military support from France

• Colonists organized boycotts of British Goods

• colonists signed the declaration of independence

• colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

• Phrase sang during the revolution

• Parliament didn’t contain a delegate from the American Colonies but made laws without the Colonists consent

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Taxation Without Representation

Repeal of the Stamp Act

• The protests of the colonists led the British Parliament to recall or cancel the stamp act

Townshend/Tea Acts

• Replaced the Stamp Act

• Included a tax on the tea imported from the British trading company

  
  Colonists quickly began protesting these taxes as well as they were still being taxed without representation

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Multiple Choice

Which Excerpt from the Declaration of Indendence best explains why colonists were unhappy about their lack of representation in the British Parliament?

• "He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people"

• "For Imposing taxes on us without our consent"

• He has refused his assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

• "For Transporting us beyond seas to be tired for pretended offences."

Multiple Choice

Resolved, that the taxation of the people by themselves, or by persons chosen by themselves to represent them... is the only security against a burdensome taxation...

-Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, May 30, 1765

Which statement best explains why this resolution was adopted?

• Colonists were upset by the punishment imposed after the Boston Tea Party

• Colonists created this in order to address the causes of the Boston Massacre

• Colonists were opposed to colonial laws being created by Parliament

• Colonists wanted to expand powers given to governors appointed by King George III

Multiple Choice

It is essential to the freedom and security of a free people, that no taxes be imposed upon them but by their own consent, or their representatives.

-Sons of Liberty, Address to the public, New York, December 15, 1773

The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of the American colonists with the -

• Political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• Interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain

Common Sense

-Called for independence from Great Britain
- Series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine

Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks was the first death of the Revolution

Protest on the Tea Act led to 5 colonists getting shot & killed by redcoats

Boston Tea Party

• Act of “civil disobedience” led by the Sons of Liberty

• Protested the Tea Act by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor
  Sons of Liberty

• Patriot group led by Samuel Adams

• Led numerous protests such as the Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

• British Response to the Boston Tea Party

• Included

  • act that shut down self-government in the colony of Massachusetts

  • Quartering Act allowed Redcoats to be Quartered (housed) in colonists homes 

The First Continental Congress

First time delegates from multiple colonies, 12 out of 13, discussed grievances against the King

• Militias (minutemen) were established

• Called out to Great Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts

• Led by John Adams

• “Shot heard around the world”

• First Battle of the American Revolution;

• Minutemen (Militia) against the Redcoats​

Battle of Lexington & Concord

Multiple Choice

Parliament passes the tea act of 1773 -> Colonists dump tea into the boston harbor-> ?

which of these completes this sequence?

• Parliament repeals the stamp and sugar acts

• King George III allows colonists to petition Parliament for tax relief

• parliament passes the intolerable acts

• king george III appoints colonial representatives to parliament.

Multiple Choice

Sugar Act

Quartering Act

Stamp Act

These acts contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War by-

• restricting colonial trade with American Indians

• imposing regulations on colonial agriculture

• angering colonists who believed that their civil liberties had been violated

• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

Multiple Choice

"It is essential to the freedom and security of free people, that no taxes be imposed upon them but by their own consent, or their representatives."

-The Sons of Liberty, address to the public, New York, December 1775

The excerpt above reflects the dissatisfaction of American colonists with the-

• political debates that took place at the Albany Convention

• interference of Great Britain in the slave trade

• economic consequences of the Great Awakening

• economic policies imposed by Great Britain following the French and Indian War

Multiple Choice

Headlines

-Great Britain Orders Closure of Boston Harbor Until Money Lost from Tea is Repaid

- Great Britain Dissolves Massachusetts Legislature

- Great Britain Allows British Officials in America Charged with Crimes to Go to England for Trial

How did the American colonists IMMEDIATELY respond to the 1774 laws described in these headlines?

• The first continental congress declared war on Great Britain

• The colonists adopted the Articles of Confederation

• the First Continental Congress sent a list of grievances to King George III

• The Colonists adopted the Bill of Rights

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The Battle of Lexington & _________ was the first battle of the Revolutionary War

• Called after the Battle of Lexington & Concord

• Led by John Adams

• Delegates decided to write the Declaration of Independence

• Established the Contiental Army (Led by George Washington) & Contiental Navy (Led by John Paul Jones)

Second Continental Congress

• Lawyer that believed everyone had a right to a fair trial

• Led the Continental Congresses

John Adams

Led the Continental Army during the Revolution

George Washington

Main Author of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

Match

Match the correct person to their description

• General of the American Continental Army

• Leader of the Continental Congresses

• Author of the Declaration of Independence

• Leader of the Continental Navy

• Author of Common Sense which promoted independence

George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

John Paul Jones

Thomas Paine

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Paul Jones

• Thomas Paine