Causes of the Revolutionary War

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Causes of the Revolutionary War
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Causes of the Revolutionary War

• A. 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

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Causes of the Revolutionary War

• A. 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

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Causes of the Revolutionary War

• A. 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

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Causes of the Revolutionary War

• A. 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

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Causes of the Revolutionary War
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