Causes of the Revolutionary War

Punishment for the Boston Tea Party, including the closing of Boston Harbor and the removal of the legislature.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

To protest the increased price on tea, rebellious colonists held a “party”, dumping tea into the harbor.

• Boston Massacre

• Townshend Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Act

Violent protest involving name calling

and snowballs and the death of five colonists.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Intolerable Acts

Prohibited colonists from settling on land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

• French and Indian War

• Intolerable Acts

Tax enforced following the French and Indian War. Tax on paper products.

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

1. American colonists were asked to cover the

cost of the French and Indian War by paying _____.

• the monarch

• refunds

• taxes

1. Colonists who supported the actions of the British

government were known as _____.

• neutral

• loyalist

• patriot

1. Many colonists were against the Stamp Act because

it was an example of taxation without _____.

• a vote

• a paw

• representation

Why did the French want control over the Ohio River Valley?

• for agriculture (growing crops)

• for fur trade

• the land was better for building houses

• to prove they were more powerful than the British

How did Great Britain react to the Boston Tea Party?

• They closed Boston Harbor and made the colonists pay for the dumped tea.

• The British left the colonies.

• The British sold the colonies to France.

• The colonists boycotted paper goods.