Causes of American revolution

Proclamation of 1763

Law prohibiting colonists from living west of Appalachian mts.

Sons of Liberty

Secret organization protesting British laws and taxes

Stamp act

Law forcing colonists to purchase stamps with all paper products

Quartering act

Law ordering each colony to be responsible for housing and caring for British troops

Boycott

Refusal to buy goods

Townshend acts

Law taxing all British goods sold in Americas

Boston Massacre

British troops open fire on mob of colonists, 5 colonists dead

Tea act

Law taxing tea

Boston tea party

Sons of liberty disguise themselves as Indians and throw tea into Boston harbor

Loyalists

Those loyal to crown

Patriots

Those who believed in revolution

Neutralist

Impartial to freedom

First continental congress

Representatives from almost every colony meet to peacefully draft a letter to king George addressing the taxes

Which colony was not present for the first continental congress?

Georgia

Tyranny

abuse of power

Intolerable acts

British response to Boston tea party putting mass. under complete British rule and supervision

Lexington

British victory

Concord

Colonist victory

What path did the British take during the midnight ride?

Sea

Colonists governed and taxed themselves

before 1763

Parliament could shut down colonial governments

Colonial assemblies and government

New York government shut down for

quartering acts

Mass shut down for

Boston tea party