Causes of the American Revolution

For about 100 years before the French and Indian War, Parliament, for the most part, did not enforce its laws in the thirteen colonies. This period of time is called

• Salutary Neglect
• Treaty of Paris
• Intolerable Acts
• Proclamation of 1763

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An organization of patriots that organized boycotts and protests were called

• Loyalists
• Albany Plan of Union
• Writs of Assistance
• Sons of Liberty

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The Quartering Act stated that

• Colonists gave housing to soldiers
• Colonists should write letters
• Taxes were added to all items
• the British should start war

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The law that stated colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Intolerable Acts
• Proclamation of 1763
• Writs of Assistance
• Boston Massacre

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Documents that gave British officers the power to search any property looking for smuggled goods.

• Salutary Nelect
• Committee of Correspondence
• Writs of Assistance
• Stamp Act

The Townshend Acts were

• Taxes on paper, paint, glass, and tea
• Taxes on all printed materials.
• Required colonists to provide housing for soldiers.
• Required colonists to buy tea from a certain company.

When the Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, this was called the

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Treaty of Paris

The committees of correspondence were colonists who

• fought Native Americans
• wrote letters
• created new taxes
• searched for gold

After Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, the colonists created their own government called

• First Continental Congress
• Central Government
• Committees of Correspondence
• Federal Proclamation

A loyalist was a person who

• Refused to buy British goods
• Boycotted items Britain taxes
• participated in the Boston Tea Party
• supported British laws and taxes