Historian Hustle - Causes of the American Revolution

The _______________________ was asecret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

• Treaty of Paris

• Boston Massacre

• Sons of Liberty

• Fort Loudoun

The _________________________________ was land west of the Appalachian Mountains that was a scene of rivalry between France and Great Britain because both countries claimed it

• Ohio River Valley

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Sons of Liberty

The ________________________________was a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Coercive Acts

• Boston Tea Party

The ______________________________ were a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

• Townshend Act

• Coercive Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Treaty of Paris

The __________________ was signed in 1763 when France gave up all of its North American colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Treaty of Paris

• Coercive Acts

• Stamp Act

________________________ was built for protection against the French in the valley of the Little Tennessee River. Served as a trading post for British colonies and the Cherokee Indians

• Ohio River Valley

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Fort Loudoun

The ____________________________ was Issued by King George III prohibiting colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Act

• Boston Massacre

• Sons of Liberty

The ________________________ was a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in Boston, where troops fired and killed several people.

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Coercive Acts

The _________________________ was a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Ohio Rover Valley

The __________________________ was an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that obtained revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and other documents.

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

• Treaty of Paris