Causes of the American Revolution

Money collected from citizens and businesses to pay for services provided by the government

• Taxes

• Trade

• Imperial Policy

• Representative

A person chosen to express the thoughts and opinions of a larger group.

• Parliament

• Representative

• Imperial Policy

• Custom Agent

The Act that increased the price of sugar, molasses, and several other colonial goods

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

The Act (Imperial Policy) that prohibited the colonists from settling WEST of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Townshend Act of 1767

• Proclamation of 1763

• Coercive Acts of 1774

• Sons of Liberty

The body (or group) of representatives that makes laws for Great Britain

• Imperial Policy

• Representative

• Custom Agents

• Parliament

The Act that required colonists to buy stamps for paper goods and documents; including newspapers playing cards and legal documents.

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Act

• Sugar Act

• Proclamation Act of 1763

Plans or actions related to managing an empire (the Rules).

• Taxes

• Trade

• Imperial Policy

• Parliament

This Act required colonists to pay tax on IMPORTED tea, paint, lead, and glass.

• Townshend Acts

• Coercive Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Tea Act

This Act allowed customs agents to search businesses, ships, and property in order to collect taxes and look for hidden goods.

• Coercive Acts

• Tea Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

This Act allowed King George to sell British Tea in the colonies for cheap, which was bad for colonial merchants.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Coercive Act