Events Leading to the American Revolution

Put a tax on ALL goods imported from England

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

A volunteer army

• redcoats

• militia

• Patriots

• Loyalists

Put a tax on all paper goods

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

The colonists met in Philadelphia and decided to stop all trade with Great Britain and that each colony should raise a militia.

• Senate

• First Continental Congress

• Parliament

• Intolerable Acts

Punishment for the Boston tea party (known as the Intolerable Acts)...

• Colonists had to house and feed British soldiers

• Massachusetts under British control

• Boston Harbor closed

• All of the above

War fought between French and British over land

• French and Indian War

• World War 1

• American Revolution

• Civil War

To refuse to buy goods

• militia

• tax

• shutdown

• boycott

During the ______________________, the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

What was the Tea Act?

• A tax placed on tea

• A law making it illegal to buy tea from anyone other than Great Britain

• A law enforcing tea time everyday at 4 PM

• All of the above

The Stamp Act was a tax on....

• paper goods

• stamps

• sugar

• tea