Causes of the American Revolution

Who won the French and Indian War?

• French

• English

• Indians

What did the King of England do after the French and Indian War?

• He taxed the colonists because he needed money.

• He let them have as much land as they wanted.

• He gave them money because he was so happy he had won the French and Indian War.

What kind of taxes did the King of England put on the colonists?

• boats, shoes and wigs

• sugar, tea, and stamps

• he didn't tax the colonists

This law stated that the colonists had to provide rooms and food for the English soldiers.

• The Housing Act

• The Boston Act

• The Quartering Act

This event involved snowballs and it was when a group of colonists were shot at by British Soldiers. Five colonists died.

• The first battles

• the midnight ride

• The Boston Massacre

If you were loyal to the king of England, you were considered a

• Patriot

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalist

A person who wanted to break away from the King of England

• Loyalist

• Patriot

When a group of Patriots snuck on a boat to dump the King's tea into the Boston Harbor

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Midnight Ride

Paul Revere

• A patriot who got caught by British Soldiers and was hung.

• A patriot who rode through the night to warn the other patriots (minutemen) that the British were coming.

• A loyalist who rode through the night to find patriots

Intolerable Acts

• The laws and taxes the king put on the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.

• The last taxes

• The taxes that the king took away