The Road to the American Revolution

Proclamation of 1763

• British law that allowed American colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
• French law that prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
• British law that prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
• Spanish law that granted American colonists land west of the Appalachian Mountains

Stamp Act

• An act passed by the British Parliament in 1776 that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies.
• An act passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies.
• An act passed by the American Congress in 1765 that imposed a direct tax on the British colonies.
• An act passed by the British Parliament in 1760 that abolished taxes on the American colonies.

Townshend Acts

• Laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that placed taxes on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea in the American colonies

• Laws passed by the British Parliament to grant more autonomy to the American colonies
• Laws passed by the British Parliament to ban trade with the American colonies
• Laws passed by the American colonies to tax British imports

Boston Massacre

• A confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists

• A battle between American colonists and Native Americans
• A violent protest by American colonists

• The slaughter of dozens of American colonists by British soldiers

non-importation agreement

• Agreement to import goods only from Great Britain

• Pledge by colonial merchants to increase imports from Great Britain

• Agreement to import goods from colonies of Great Britain

• Pledge by colonial merchants or traders not to import goods from Great Britain

First Continental Congress

• The First Continental Congress was a meeting of the delegates from 13 of the 12 French Colonies that became the United States

• The First Continental Congress was a meeting of the delegates from 13 of the 13 British Colonies that became the United States

• The First Continental Congress was a meeting of the delegates from 12 of the 13 Spanish Colonies that became the United States

• The First Continental Congress was a meeting of the delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies that became the United States

Describe the Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Tea Party was a protest against British taxation where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
• The Boston Tea Party was a meeting where colonists discussed tea recipes and traditions.
• The Boston Tea Party involved colonists planting tea in the ground as a protest.
• The Boston Tea Party was a celebration of British goods by colonists in Boston.

Ride of Paul Revere and Richard Dawes

• Paul Revere and John Adams rode to celebrate independence.
• Richard Dawes and Samuel Adams rode to deliver supplies.
• Paul Revere and Richard Dawes rode from Lexington and Concord to Boston to warn the colonists of the British troops

• Paul Revere and Richard Dawes rode from Boston to Lexington and Concord to warn the colonists of the British troops.

Quartering Act

• The Quartering Act mandated colonists to provide food for soldiers.
• The Quartering Act allowed colonists to tax British soldiers.
• The Quartering Act required colonists to house British soldiers.
• The Quartering Act prohibited British soldiers from entering homes.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

• The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in the Civil War.
• The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the end of the Revolutionary War.
• The Battles of Lexington and Concord were a series of naval engagements.
• The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.