Causes of the Revolutionary War

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• French and Indian War

• Ohio Valley War

A tax in the colonies on sugar and molasses

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

Required certain colonies to provide food and living quarters (housing) for British troops

• Sugar Act

• Living Act

• Housing Act

• Quartering Act

Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies; forced colonists to pay for an official stamp on paper products

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

• Paper Act

• Stamp Act

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Committees of Correspondance

• Sons of Liberty

• Continental Congress

• Knights Templar

British law that established new taxes on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint imported into the colonies.

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Paint Act

incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Salem Witch Trials

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies; upset colonial tea merchants

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the Tea Act

• Intolerable Act

• Townshend Act

• Incomprehensible Act

• Tolerance Act