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Causes of Amer. Rev.
(Mooresville) Causes of American Revolution
Question | Answer |
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War between England and France for territory in the Americas. | French and Indian War |
Won the French and Indian War, gaining all land east of the Mississippi River | England |
British law that prohibited the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. | Proclamation of 1763 |
Act that placed a tax on all paper products in the Americas. Colonists boycotted it and it was repealed by the British. | Stamp Act |
Colonial group that led revolts and boycotts in the Americas | Sons of Liberty |
Conflict that took place in Boston between the colonists and the British troops. Resulted in less than 10 deaths, but exaggerated by leaders of the revolution. | Boston Massacre |
Tax on tea that gave a British company a monopoly on the tea industry in the Americas. | Tea Act |
Event where American revolutionaries dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. | Boston Tea Party |
British act that closed the Boston Harbor and increased England's power as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. | Coercive Acts |
What the colonists called the Coercive Acts | Intolerable Acts |
Locations where the colonists attacked British troops trying to confiscate their weapons before the war actually began. | Lexington and Concord |
Battle before the war began that proved the Americans could stand up to the British. The Americans retreated only after their ammunition supplies ran too low. | Bunker Hill |