Causes of American Revolution Review

Dispute over borders between British and French territory in America. Lead to British debt that the colonist had to pay.

• French and Indian War
• American Revolution 
• Tea Act
• Mercantilism 

Statement from Britain claiming that the colonists could not settle past the Appalachian Mountains

• French and Indian War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quartering Act
• Russell Act 

Forced colonists to house and feed British troops

• Intolerable Acts
• Housing Act
• Quartering Act
• Stupid Acts

Punishment for the Boston Tea Party. Took away colonists town meetings and closed the Boston port

• Intolerable Acts
• Curfew Acts
• Proclamation of 1763
• Trade Acts 

Why did colonists oppose British taxes?

• They did not have any representation or voice in those taxes
• The taxes were too high. Many lost their homes and starved. 
• They only applied to women
• They funded a war the colonists did not support 

Colonial belief that they should not be taxed without having a say in Parliament 

• Sons and Daughters of Liberty
  
• Writs of Assistance
  
• "No Taxation without Representation"
• Vice-Admiralty Courts 

Protest conducted by the Sons of Liberty that made British angry and caused tensions between two sides 

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Writs of Assisstance
• Triangular Trade

What is the meaning of taxation without representation?

• When people are taxed, but they have no say in the government
• When people are taxed twice on the same item
• When some people get taxed and others don't
• When people in the Colonies are taxed, but no one in England is

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was stated in the Proclamation of 1763?

• Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
• Colonists were encouraged to begin settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
• The Proclamation ended the French and Indian War. 
• The Proclamation proclaimed independence for the American colonists. 

Which of the following used American Colonists deaths to make people angry at British Soldiers? 

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Harbor
• Boston, Massachussetts