Causes of the Revolutionary War
Name: _______________
Great Britain
 Also known as _______________
 _________________ country in Europe
 Thirteen __________________ were part of England’s “empire”
King _______________________ III
 King of England
__________________________
 England’s _______________________ made up of many British men
 Made ___________________ for the colonies (America) ___________________ asking
them or including any of the colonist leaders in the decision making
French and Indian War
 1754-1763 (also known as the _________ Years War)
 Great ______________ and colonists against ________________ and Indians over who
got the NEW LAND in America
Britain and the Colonies Win!
 French and _____________ lost.
 The war was very _________________ for Great Britain.
 After the war, Great Britain __________________ lots of money to make up for all that
they had lost in the French and Indian War.
British Troops ____________ in the Colonies!
 Even after the French and Indian War was over
 “to _______________” the colonists from Indian raids
Proclamation ____________________ of 1763
• no settling or fur trapping ________ of the mountains.
• the colonies could not __________________ bigger!
Britain’s Idea to Pay Their War ______________!
 British Logic = “Since we protected the colonies from the Indians and the French taking
over and _____________ the war _______ them, __________ should be the ones to
_______________ the war debt we have, so let’s tax them!”
 __________ = extra money paid on bought goods that goes to the government
______________ Act 1765
• Colonists had to have a stamp that cost _________ on:
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Wills
documents to get married
documents to buy a house
______________ certificates.
____________________ Act 1765
• The colonists had to ____________ and feed the British soldiers
who “were there to protect them from Indians.”
• The British were actually there to
keep an eye on the colonists and ________________ the taxation.
Disagreements
 Parliament believed it had legal ____________________ in the colonies, while the
_______________ believed their ___________ assemblies had legal authority.
No Taxation __________________ Representation!
 Parliament believed it had the ___________ to tax the colonies,
while the colonists believed they should _____________ be
taxed since they had _______ representation in Parliament.
____________ Adams
 Lived in Boston, Massachusetts
 Owned a tavern
 Hated being taxed
 Started a secret club
 Sons of Liberty
Sons of Liberty 1767
• A _______________ started by Samuel Adams and James Otis to protest the Stamp Act.
Townshend Acts 1767
• The colonists were forced to pay a tax (extra money) on:
1. _____________
2. Lead
3. Paint
4. _____________
5. Tea
Boston __________________ 1770
• Colonists were throwing rocks and snowballs at ____________________.
• Redcoats ___________ shots into the crowd of people.
Committees of Correspondence 1772
• Formed to keep the colonists _________________ about what was going on in Boston.
Tea Act and Boston Tea Party 1773
• England told the colonists that they could
___________ buy tea from the East India Company,
and they still had to pay a _____________ on tea.
• _______________ citizens dress up as Indians
boarded one of the East India Company ships
loaded with tea and ___________ 342 cartons
of tea into the harbor to _______________
the British tax on tea.
Intolerable Acts 1774
• To _______________________ the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party :
• demanded payment for all the tea destroyed
• ___________________ the port at Boston and would let nothing in or out
• would not let colonists ______________ together.
First Continental Congress 1774
• met and complained (nothing really
got done)
________________ Henry’s Speech 1775
 Virginian
 “Give me _________ or give me
_______________!”
 Famous ___________ in a church
in Richmond, ___________________
Paul ___________________ Ride 1775
 Boston Massachusetts
 To warn the minutemen that the British were coming
Battles of _____________________ and Concord 1775
 “shot heard round the _____________________”
 ___________ place of the American Revolutionary War
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
 “Should an island rule a _________________?”
 47 page _________________ full of bold thoughts that got people ________________.
Second Continental Congress 1776
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 The Colonies write a _______________ to King George III
to tell him that they are going to become their own
__________________ country and will not let Britain rule
them anymore.
 This means war with England.
 “We hold these _________ to be self-evident that all men are created ____________,
that they are endowed by their ____________ with certain unalienable rights. That
among these are life, _________________, and the pursuit of happiness.”