Causes Of The American Revolution

Why did the colonists rebel against England

• Because England was stealing from them

• Because of the rights that England put on the Colonists

• Because they wanted to be a free country

• Because of the Revolutionary War

What was the main goals of the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, & Navigation Acts

• Taxes on any document with a stamp

• Taxes on Sugar, for example Molasses

• Colonies could only trade with England

• Signing the Declaration Of Independence

What is Mercantilism

• Colonists exist for the good of the mother country

• British soldiers had the right to search Colonists homes

• The cause of the Revolutionary War

• Colonists could only trade with England.

What was the main purpose of the Declaration Of Independence

• To show that the Colonists are separated from England, and are now their own country

• To show that Colonists could only trade with England

• To show that the Colonists had to stay with England

• To show that the Colonists can’t be taxed anymore

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights that everybody has

• Rights that one person has

• Rights that show that you’re not supposed to be in America

• Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness

Where does the government’s power come from according to the Declaration Of Independence

• The people it governs

• The leaders

• Winning Land & War

• Teaming Up with other powerful leaders.

What do the people have the right to do if the government abuses their power.

• The people have the right to alter or abolish it

• Nothing

• Kill The Leaders

• Rebel against their government

What was Thomas Paine’s message in Common Sense

• We shouldn’t stay with England

• We should stay with England

• We should team up with the Germans

• We should team up with the Indians

Who were the Patriots and the Loyalists

• People who stayed loyal to the British

• Colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution

• People who teamed with the Indians

• People who worked at a church

What is the Proclamation of 1763

• Colonists could not move west into the Ohio River, past the Appalachian Mountains

• Colonists could only team up with England

• Colonists could only trade with England

• Colonists could only team up with the Indians