Causes of the American Revolution

These laws punished intended to punish Boston for the Tea Party.

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

This law outlawed settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Proclamation of 1763

This British law required colonists to provide food and shelter to British Soldiers.

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Coercive Acts

Which of the following organizations did not protest British control of the colonies?

• Parliament

• Sons of Liberty

• Stamp Act Congress

• First Continental Congress

This law asserted Parliament's power to pass laws and govern the colonies.

• Stamp Act

• Declaratory Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

Which of the following were taxed during the Stamp Act? 

• Glass and Gold 
• Playing Cards and Documents
• Eyeglasses and medicine
• Horses and farm equipment 

Which of the following was the 1st tax placed on the colonists in order to pay for the war?

• Tea
• Stamp
• Sugar
• Coffee

Which enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Thomas Paine

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights