Causes of the American Revolution

To bring something in from another country

• import

• export

• ship

The refusal to accept something

• Protest

• Resistance

• Anger

A small army made up of ordinary citizens who are available to fight in an emergency

• Continental Army

• Redcoats

• Militia

A statement or action expressing objection to what someone has said or done

• Protest

• Resistance

• Proclamation

A law that stated that land west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be occupied by Native Americans

• Townsend Revenue Acts

• Sugar Act

• Proclamation of 1763

A British law that put a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Import Tax

A British law that required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used

• Paper Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies that placed new taxes on imports and took away some freedoms from the colonists

• Townsend Revenue Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

Who did most of the Native Americans fight with during the French and Indian war?

• British

• French

• Spanish

What were the French and the British fighting over during the French and Indian war?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Mississippi River Valley

• Ohio River Valley