Causes of the Revolution

Why were the colonists upset about the new taxes?

• The colonists did not want taxation without representation.

• The tax money went to the French.

• The merchants wanted to tax their own goods.

• The colonists were not members of the East India Company.

How did the First Continental Congress try to solve the conflict over the tea tax?

• They organized the Boston Tea Party

• They wrote a letter to the British government asking them to stop taxing the colonists.

• They boycotted the tea.

• They organized a secret meeting to talk about the tea.

What two groups were separated by the Proclamation Line of 1763?

• the British and French

• The French and American Indians

• the colonists and the American Indians

• The French and the Spanish

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