Causes of the Revolutionary War

What was the cause of the French and Indian War?

• Both the British and the French wanted the same land in North America.

• The French and Americans Indians did not get along.

• The French did not want to pay taxes to the British.

• General Washington offended the French King.

What did Britain do as a result of the French and Indian War?

• The stopped the fur trade in North America.
• The signed the treaty of London.
• They gave four colonies away to the French.
• They decided to tax the colonists to help pay for the war.

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_____________________ was the name of Britain's law making assembly.

• House of Burgess

• Meeting House

• Parliament

• Congress

This group was formed by ____________________. ___________________ dressed as Mohawks and dumped tea in the harbor. 

• John Adams; Women
• Samuel Adams; Sons of Liberty
• Ben Franklin; Sons of Liberty
• Paul Revere; Sons of Liberty

Stopping all trade with Britain and beginning to train militias was a result of __________________________.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The First Continental Congress

• The Boston Massacre

• The Second Continental Congress

What was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War?

• Concord
• Lexington
• Bunker Hill
• Yorktown

What did the Quartering Act require the colonists to do?

• pay more money for sugar

• dump tea into the Boston Harbor

• provide housing for British soldiers

• pay a tax on all printed material

Colonists had no representatives in Parliament, so the people cried, "______________!"

• "Help Us!"

• "Kill the King"

• "Yeet!"

• "No taxation without representation!"

The dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor angered King George, so imposed the Coercive Acts on the colonists. The colonists called it ________________.

• The King George Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Tea Party Act

• Rebel Act

How did the colonial militia know the British were coming to Lexington?

• Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, and William Dawes warned them on their midnight ride.
• Spies in the British army warned them
• The British troop movements were obvious, and easy to observe
• They didn't know, and they were taken by surprise