Causes of the American Revolution

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

This act required colonists to provide food and housing (shelter) to the British soldiers.

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

Patriots often chanted “No taxation without representation.” This means the colonists were angry about…

• high tariffs

• not having a voice in their government

• not being allowed to move west of the Appalachian Mountains

• housing British soldiers

Which cause of the Revolutionary War is represented above?

• The Quartering Act
• Townshend Acts
• Proclamation of 1763
• Declaratory Acts

Groups of colonists who remained faithful to the British during the war:

• Patriot
• minutemen
• mercenary
• Loyalist

Group of colonists who were in favor of independence during the war:

• Patriot
• mercenary
• civilian
• Loyalist

This act was passed in 1765....it was a tax on all paper documents in the colonies such as newspapers, documents, and ship papers.

• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Paper Act
• Currency Act

How did the Proclamation of 1763 impact the colonies?

• It required them to pay extra taxes and fees to France
• It prevented them from trading with Indian tribes. 
• It required them to house British Soldiers in their homes.
• It prevented them from expanding westward. 

In this economic system, the trade of the colonies is controlled by the mother country.

• free enterprise
• taxation
• mercantilism
• anarchy