Causes of the American Revolution - Review

Britain had supplied the colonists with supplies and troops during the French and Indian War. Immediately after the war Britain-- (8.4A)

• passed a series of laws designed to restrict colonial trade and disrupt colonial government

• closed Boston Harbor and passed laws forcing colonists to house British troops

• wanted to ask France to sell their territory west of the Mississippi river

• began enacting economic policies on the colonies to help pay for the war

A volunteer army

• Boycott

• Tariff

• Militia

• Patriots

To refuse to buy a product

• boycott

• treaty

• quarter

• debt

A formal agreement between countries

• Boycott

• Congress

• Treaty

• Tariff

owed money

• debt

• tariff

• quarter

• treaty

to take back or away a law

• repeal 
• boycott
• propaganda 
• quartering 

Proclamation of 1763

• Did not allow colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains

• A Tax on sugar based products that the colonists had to pay England for

• The Indians were not allowed to attack the colonies

Sugar Act of 1764

• Parliament passed the Tea Act in an attempt to save the British East India Company from going bankrupt

• A Tax on sugar based products that the colonists had to pay England for

• The colonists were allowed to smuggle sugar

Stamp Act 1765

• A Tax on sugar based products that the colonists had to pay England for

• Parliament passed the Tea Act in an attempt to save the British East India Company from going bankrupt

• Tax on all printed materials such as: newspapers, pamphlets, wills, playing cards, etc

This writing was published during the American Revolution and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence.

• Rights of man

• The American Crisis

• Common Sense