Causes of the Revolutionary War

Causes of the Revolutionary WarA. A tax placed on all legal

documents, newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards

B. Laws used to control colonial trade to make mercantilism work for England

C. A law that prohibited all colonial settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mts.

D. A tax on all foreign sugar and molasses.

1. Navigation Acts

2. Proclamation of 1763

3. Sugar Act

4. Stamp Act

Causes of the Revolutionary WarA. A tax placed on all imports

such as lead, paper, tea, paint,and glass

B. Allowed the British to tax the colonies directly

C. British troops fired on and killed 5 colonial protestors

D. Blank search warrants allowing British soldiers to search colonial homes

5. Declaratory Act

6. Townshend Act

7. Writs of Assistance

8. Boston Massacre

Causes of the Revolutionary WarA. Punished the colonies for the

Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston

B. Gave the Ohio Valley to the French Canadians

C. A law that made colonists house and feed British soldiers

D. A tax making British East India Tea less expensive than Colonial tea.

9. Tea Act

10. Intolerable Acts

11. Quebec Act

12. Quartering Act

Causes of the Revolutionary WarA. Olive Branch Petition sent to

King George III. George Washington commander of Army.

B. Rides with William Dawes andSamuel Prescott to warn that “The British are coming”

C. Paul Revere sends the SuffolkResolves. Colonies train Militia.

D. British stopped from capturing Sam Adams and John Hancock.“The shot heard round the world”

1. First Continental Congress

2. Lexington and Concord

3. Paul Revere

4. Second Continental Congress

Causes of the Revolutionary WarRecite the Minuteman Slogan and name the acts

each letter represents:

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