Causes of Am Revolution - Teenager Analogies

There has been a series of break-ins in the neighborhood, so your parents decide you need to get a home security system. In order to pay for it, they are making everyone in your house pay a portion of the bill each month.

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• French and Indian War

• Common Sense

You end up fighting your friends for control of a treehouse and win. However, your parents are angry about the fight and forbid you AND the other kids from the tree house. They tell you everyone must stay out of the tree house so as to avoid all future problems.

• Stamp Act

• Common Sense

• Proclamation of 1763

• French and Indian War

As a result of a series of break-ins, your parents are making you and your siblings help pay the cost of a security system. You and your siblings are not happy about having to pay for the security system each month, so you form a pact to protest, boycotting your chores and refusing to pay until they stop charging you each month. You secretly meet in your rooms to discuss your demands and make sure all your siblings protest and don't give in to your parents.

• Sons of Liberty

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Battles at Lexington and Concord

Your teacher knows the school rule is that all students wear a tie, but he never enforces the rule.

• Navigation Acts

• Mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• Stamp Act

For a short period of time, your parents banned Netflix. Your parents tell you that you can watch TV or Netflix again, but you have to watch the show they choose: Duck Dynasty.

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Salutary Neglect

• Intolerable Acts

You're so angry about losing your ability to watch whatever shows you want that you cancel your family's Netflix, internet and cable services so that no one can enjoy them. The cable company is going to charge your parents hundreds of dollars in cancellation fees, and they will have to pay additional fees to restart their Netflix account.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Common Sense

• Daughters of Liberty

When you cancelled your family's Netflix and cable/internet services, your parents freaked out. Netflixing was the one way they could relax, and they need the internet to work. They banish you to your room, take away your allowance and cell phone and shut down all your social media accounts. You now have to follow all their rules and do whatever they ask you to do. You are no longer allowed to leave the house under any circumstances.

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Intolerable Acts

Before you can try to work things out, your parents discover that you have hidden a tablet and a cell phone in your closet. They heard you tapping out a text and playing a game on your tablet one night. Your sisters tells you that she heard your parents whispering that they are going to sneak into your room early in the morning and take your last prized posessions.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Committees of Correspondence

• Common Sense

Being on house arrest without your cellphone, Netflix and social media is too much. Your sister agrees with you that this punishment is too much, but your brother is on the fence. In order to free yourself, you need to convince your brother that you are right. Unfortunately, he is still mad at you about having to watch "Duck Dynasty." So, you ask his best friend, who is your basketball teammate, to talk to him. The best friend texts your brother, convinces him that you are right and that you he should side with you.

• Common Sense

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Boston Massacre

You want your Grandma to side with you. You know you need to make the situation look as bad as possible, and this means you may have to life. It's for a good cause, right? So, you tell Grandma that your parents won't let you watch your shows on Netflix and (here's where you lie a little), they banned you from the internet. Banning you from the internet means you can't do your homework!

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battles at Lexington and Concord

• Navigation Acts