Understand the Causes of the American Revolution

How did colonists react when British Parliament levied taxes on all paper products such as Newspapers, wills, licenses and playing cards?

• Wrote letters to the House of Burgesses

• refused to buy stamps by boycotting

• Burned all paper goods

• Dumped Stamps over the Boston Harbor

Parliament also believed that the colonists should pay for the British Army stationed in the colonies known as the____________

• Housing Act

• Townshends Act

• Quartering Act

• Intolerable Acts

In December 1773, the Boston Sons of Liberty decided to board the private vessels of the East India Tea Co. Fifty men dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 343 chests of tea in to the Boston Harbor. What was this event famously referred to as?

Answer explanation

90,000 llbs of tea was dumped in the Boston Harbor and cost the East India Tea Co. a whopping $343 million worth of damage

What purpose was the image on the left used?

• Used as a popular music video

• Used as Propaganda to encourage support for American Independence

• Used as a promotion poster to recruit Redcoats

• used in a graphic novel

Under the Intolerable Acts, how did British Parliament punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

• Closed the Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Legislative Assembly

• Made all Boston Colonists drink tea from the Harbor

• The king filed a lawsuit for monetary damages against the colonists

• imposed cruel and unusual Punishment for the Sons of Liberty

Put the following events in the correct sequence starting with the earliest

Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Tea Act

James Otis coined the famous revolutionary slogan...

• Give me liberty or Give me death

• No Taxation without representation is Tyranny

• What a glorious morning for America

• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes

Crispus Attucks, Paul Revere, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin are all considered

• Loyalists

• Patriots

Mercy Otis Warren was a female playwright who wrote Satirical plays against the British rule in the colonies. She would be considered

• Loyalist

• Tory

• Patriot

• Burgess

Why was Mercantilism considered a cause of the American Revolution?

• Britain ignored the colonies

• Britain restricted colonial trade

• Britain forced colonists to become members of the Anglican Church

• Britain closed all legislative Assemblies int he colonies