Causes of the American Revolution

The act required colonists to provide food and shelter for the redcoats

• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Intolerable Act
• Quartering Act

The British decided to tax colonists to pay for this from war

• tea

• soldiers

• debt

• weapons

The Continental Congress met in this city.

• Philadelphia
• Washington D.C.
• Boston
• New York City

This act angered colonists when it was announced in March 1765

• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Tea Party

This act said that the British had the right to tax the colonists

• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Declaratory Act

• Townshend Acts

A series of laws that taxed tea, paper, lead, glass, and paint

• Intolerable Acts
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act

A "massacre" in this city was used as propaganda by the Sons of Liberty

• Boston

• Washington

• Philadelphia

• New York

A tax on this led to boycott and standoff in Boston Harbor

• Intolerable

• Tea

• Stamp

• Sugar

Acts passed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party

• Coercive Acts
• Stamp Acts

• Tea Acts

• Intolerable Acts

What is the main reason the British soldiers went to Concord?

• To fight the Patriots

• To seize Patriot weapons

• For food and shelter

• To meet with the British governor of Massachusetts