Cause For Revolution? Championship

This was a tax on most printed paper products

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

This lowered the price of tea

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

The Townshend Acts taxed

• Glass

• Paint

• Paper

• Lead

• Tea

This was a punishment for the Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

These were LEGAL ways the colonists responded to British taxes

• Burning effigies

• protest

• petitions

• boycotts

• tar and feathering

These were ILLEGAL ways that the colonists responded to British taxes:

• tar and feathering

• destroying tax collectors' property

• smuggling

• burning effigies

12 colonies met to discuss how to respond to the Intolerable Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington and Concord

• First Continental Congress

Colonists in disguise threw 92,000 of British tea into Boston Harbor.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington and Concord

• First Continental Congress

British army was going here to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington

• First Continental Congress

• Concord

British army was going here to seize weapons and ammunition hidden by the Patriots.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Lexington

• First Continental Congress

• Concord