Causes of the American Revolution & Sources

What does independence mean?

• you rely on something else

• you can't do anything on your own

• you are free

• you have to make decisions with others

Great Britain fought a war with France over...

• $

• religion

• land

• ideas

After Great Britain won the war with France they...

• threw a huge party

• cried

• went into debt and taxed the colonies

• did nothing

Fill-in-the-Blank: The colonists wanted independence from _________.

• the USA

• Great Britain

• the Atlantic Ocean

The British made the colonists pay a tax on all paper that they bought. This tax was created by what act?

• Paper Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Wood Act

The Committees of Correspondence were responsible for…

• organizing the colonial troops for war

• disguising themselves as Native Americans and dumping 340 chests of tea into Boston’s Harbor

• talking with other towns and colonies to share ideas on how to challenge British laws

• preventing the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

What act punished the colony of Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

The Tea Act was an act that required the colonists to...

• buy and drink tea every day.

• buy tea from the British East India Company.

• buy tea from the colonial tea companies.

• pay a tax on all items except tea.

What happened during the Boston Massacre?

• A peace agreement was signed between the colonists and the British

• The city of Boston was bombed by the British

• The colonists killed five British Soldiers

• British soldiers killed five colonists

In response to the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty had what is now called the “Boston Tea Party.” What did they do at this “party?”

• Poured tea all over the tax collectors 

• Threw British tea into the Boston Harbor

• Celebrated by drinking their own tea

• Invited British soldiers over for tea