Quiz, Quiz, Trade Cards Causes of the American Revolution Grades 8, 10 and 11

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Quiz, Quiz, Trade CardsCauses of the American
RevolutionGrades 8, 10 and 11

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Quiz, Quiz, Trade Instructions

• Print the slides. Laminate and cut out the
  rectangles. There is a matching term and
  definition.
• Each student receives a card. Students mix
  around the room. Teacher can play if there is an
  odd number of students or may buddy two
  students.
• Students quiz each other on their card and then
  exchange the cards.
• Students repeat the procedure with different
  partners until time is called.
• Management tip have students raise their hands
  when looking for a partner.

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Navigation Acts

• Restricted colonial trade, manufacturing, and
  shipping
• 1650-1763
• Colonial Response
• Smuggling
• Evasion and disregard

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Sugar Act

• Duty (tax) placed on sugar from the West Indies
  to raise revenue for Britain
• 1764
• Colonial Response
• Colonial protests lead to lower duties (taxes)

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Quartering Act

• Required certain colonies to provide food and
  housing for British soldiers
• 1765
• Colonial Response
• Colonial Assemblies refused to comply with the act

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Stamp Act

• Required the use of stamped paper articles
  showing that the tax had been paid
• 1765
• Colonial Response
• Protested taxation by Parliament without colonial
  representation
• Stamp Act repealed

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Townshend Acts

• Light taxation on glass, lead, paper, and tea
• 1767
• Colonial Response
• Smuggling
• Resisting British troops resulting in the Boston
  Massacre
• Refusing to import goods

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Enforcement of Tea Tax

• East India Company given monopoly for colonial
  tea business with small tax
• 1773
• Colonial Response
• Tea ships and cargos destroyed by colonials in
  Boston and Annapolis

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Coercive Acts
• (also known as the Intolerable Acts)

• Many rights of Massachusetts dissolved assembly,
  town meetings, jury trials, port of Boston closed
• 1774
• Colonial Response
• Colonial representatives met in the first
  Continental Congress to protest the acts and
  called for a complete boycott on British goods

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Quebec Act

• Extended Quebec to the Ohio River
• Did not provide trial by jury or right of
  assembly
• Recognized the Catholic religion in Quebec
• 1774
• Colonial Response
• Smuggling
• Evasion and disregard