Causes of the Revolution

What is a boycott?

• Refusal to buy or use goods and services

• A written request

• Refusal to move

• A product the British made better than anyone else

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

• Forbid colonists from moving back to England

• Forbid colonists from living east of the Appalachian Mountains

• Forbid colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains

• forbid British soldiers from living in colonists' homes

Which event caused the British to raise taxes on American colonists?

• Nothing. They just felt like it.

• Revolutionary War

• The French and Indian War

• Civil War

What was the famous slogan colonists used to portray their unhappiness with Parliament?

• The British are coming!

• Join or die!

• Give me liberty or give me death!

• No taxation without representation!

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

• A professional football team from Boston

• A group of British soldiers who sympathized with the colonists

• A militia outfit

• A patriot group formed to protest British taxes

What did the Stamp Act do?

• Taxed paper documents by requiring an official stamp be placed on them to be legal

• Required colonists to get a stamp on their hands to travel

• Taxed paper documents not produced in Britain

• Required farmers to "stamp," or label, their livestock and equipment

This law said American colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains due to conflict with the Native Americans

• The Law of the Mountains

• The Land Proclamation

• Indian Lands Proclamation

• Proclamation of 1763

Militia are...

• Volunteer soldiers

• Mercenaries

• Skilled and experienced soldiers

• Green army men

Patriots

• A. Wanted independence from Britian

• B. Wanted to remain loyal to Britain

• Both A and B

• Neither A or B

If you were a Loyalist you would

• Remain neutral

• want to fight so the colonies could be free and independent from Great Britain

• want the colonies to remain loyal to Great Britain

• want to be left alone