Causes of the American Revolution 1763-1770

a conflict between the British colonists and the French colonists and Native Americans over westward expansion into the Ohio Territory; the British eventually won, and imposed taxes on the British colonists to pay for it

• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• Parliament

a decree issued by King George III at the end of the French and Indian War to establish boundaries of the new territories acquired from the French; it forbade colonists to buy land or settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• Proclamation of 1763
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War

a British law passed in 1765 that was meant to raise revenue through taxing all colonial commercial and legal documents, newspapers, cards, and other printed material

• Stamp Act
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War

passed by Parliament in 1765, it required colonists to house British soldiers

• Quartering Act
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War

passed by the British Parliament in 1766 in response to the repeal of the Stamp Act; reasserted Parliament’s right to pass laws in the colonies

• Declaratory Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War
• Parliament

Acts passed by Parliament which placed a tax on common products imported into the colonies, such as paper, lead, glass, and tea

• Townshend Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War

the name given to an incident that took place on March 5, 1770, in which five civilians were killed by British soldiers

• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War
• Parliament

the highest law-making body in Britain, consisting of the House of Commons, House of Lords, and the sovereign (monarch)

• Parliament
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War

colonial women who actively supported the Patriot cause by not buying British goods or by making local substitutes, such as homespun cloth

• Daughters of Liberty
• Boston Massacre
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War
• Parliament

a secret organization of American Patriots who protested the British Crown’s new taxes on the colonies, beginning with the Stamp Act of 1765

• Sons of Liberty
• Boston Massacre
• Daughters of Liberty
• Declaratory Acts
• French & Indian War/Seven Years’ War