Causes of the Revolutionary War

Required certain colonies to provide food and living quarters (housing) for British troops

• Sugar Act

• Living Act

• Housing Act

• Quartering Act

A tax in the colonies on sugar and molasses

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

A refusal to buy one or more goods from a particular source

• Cottboy

• Import

• Export

• Boycott

a group of representatives that made laws (in Great Britain)

• Town Meeting

• Parliament

• Parchment

• Executive Branch

American colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Merchants

• Artisans

Money that is owed and must be repaid

• tax

• debt

• debit

• credit

incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Salem Witch Trials

Colonists who remained loyal to the British and wanted to remain British citizens

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Merchants

• Artisans

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the Tea Act

• Intolerable Act

• Townshend Act

• Incomprehensible Act

• Tolerance Act

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Committees of Correspondance

• Sons of Liberty

• Continental Congress

• Knights Templar