Causes of the American Revolution

Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
These acts contributed to the Revolutionary War by---

• Restricting Colonial trade with the Indians
• Imposing regulations on colonial regulations
• angering colonists who believed their civil liberties were being violated
• punishing colonists for resisting the authority of Parliament

This excerpt reflects the dissatisfaction of the American colonists with--

• political debates that took place in Albany
• 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

British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they--

• feared it would provoke Indian attacks
• 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 other nations

-Intolerable Acts imposed
-First Continental Congress convened
-Thomas Paine's "Common" Sense is published
All the events listed above occurred during the--

• Revolutionary Era
• the Era of Westward Expansion
• the Era of Good Feelings
• the Jacksonian Era

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country
• Competing Seminole and Spanish claims to Florida were resolved
• The British Navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service
• British territory in Canada was ceded to France

What is Civil Disobedience?

• Refusing to obey unjust laws
• Disobeying rules in the home
• Refusing to obey your parents
• Disobeying the police

How did the colonist react to the Tea Act?

• They boycotted British goods.
• They dumped British Tea into Boston Harbor.
• They tarred and feathered British tax collectors.
• They agreed to pay the tax because it was fair.

What is an example of a boycott?

• Dumping tea in Boston Harbor
• Walking out on your job
• Refusing to buy products from Wal Mart
• Refusing to work on homework

What did the Quartering Act require?

• Colonists must house and feed British officials
• Colonists must house and feed British soldiers
• Colonists were required to house and feed British Parliament
• Colonists must house and feed British animals

The loyalists were loyal to--

• France
• America
• Spain
• England