Causes of the
American
Revolution
Review
School House Rock
• American Revolution – “No More King”
• Activity:
o Make a timeline of the events.
• All of the events are mixed up. Cut out the boxes and
put the events in order from the first event to the last on
construction paper.
• Decorate the timeline with color.
• Put your name, class period, and today’s date in the
bottom left hand corner.
• Include the rubric on the back, center portion of your
paper.
*References: Use your interactive notebook and the textbook
for help.
Rubric
• 4 – The timeline is put together in sequential order. It
is decorated nicely with color. It is glued or taped
together neatly. More details of each event have
been added to the timeline boxes.
• 3 - The timeline is put together in sequential order. It
is decorated nicely with color. It is glued or taped
together neatly.
• 2 - The timeline is put together in sequential order. It
is decorated. It is glued or taped together neatly.
• 1 - The timeline is put together, but not neatly or the
timeline has not been completed.
Stamp Act
1765
• In 1765, another tax was passed called the Stamp
Act.
• Once again, the colonists did not have a say.
• This taxed newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, legal
documents, insurance policies, licenses, and
playing cards.
Proclamation of 1763
• Fighting between the Indians and the British began
after the French and Indian War because the British
was moving west.
• King George III wanted the fighting to end, so he
issued a proclamation for the British to stop buying
land to the west.
• Indians were happy and the colonists were not, so
with Daniel Boone’s help, they continued to move
west.
Stamp Act Congress
1765
• Colonists, James Otis and Benjamin Franklin, thought
the colonies should work together.
• Nine out of the 13 colonies met in New York City.
• They wrote a declaration, an official statement, to
King George III declaring to drop the taxes.
• The Stamp Act, but not the Sugar Act, was
repealed, or canceled, by Parliament.
• Not even a year later the Townshend Acts, which
were more taxes, was passed with out colonists’
say.
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
• Colonists were angered by the Parliament’s taxes
and began fights with the British soldiers since they
were their in the colonies.
• British soldiers had enough and killed five colonists
by gunfire in Boston, Massachusetts.
Intolerable Acts
• Parliament was not happy and punished all of the
colonists since they didn’t know specifically who did
the damage.
• They passed unreasonable laws which became
known as the Intolerable Acts.
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No town meetings
Legislature could not make laws
Port was closed, couldn’t make money
House British Soldiers
First Continental Congress
• 56 Representatives met in September of 1774 to
discuss the problems with the continuous British
threat.
• They wrote a petition, a signed request, to have a
list of specific rights.
Lexington and Concord
• Samuel Adams was in charge of the Minutemen
who could be ready in a minute to fight.
• British wanted to arrest Sam Adams and they went
to Concord, but he was really in Lexington.
• Paul Revere had sent the warning message that
“the British were coming.” The minutemen surprised
the British on the main road and fired.
• Minutemen won this attack.
Sugar Act
1764
• In 1764, the Sugar Act was passed to tax sugar and
other products.
• Colonists were not pleased, mostly because they
didn’t have a say in the matter. (No voting was
offered.)
French and Indian War
1763
• War began between the British and the French.
• Indians had an alliance, a formal agreement, with
the French.
• Spain tried to help the French because the French
were having difficulty and almost gave up, but
Spain failed due to the British attacking them right
away.
• In 1763 a treaty (agreement) was signed, Treaty of
Paris, and land was given to the British.
Boston Tea Party
• Parliament tried to have complete control over tea
by creating a monopoly to not have over pricing.
• The Sons of Liberty, which was a group of colonists,
went onto the ships holding chests of tea in Boston
on the night of December 16, 1773 dressed as
Mohawk Indians. They threw the tea from 342
chests into the harbor to make a statement to
Parliament.
Second Continental Congress
First meeting May 10, 1775
• Colonists realized it was time to break away from
British rule.
• They established an army with George Washington
as Commander in Chief.
• They created important documents such as the
Olive Branch Petition to request a peaceful end to
the fighting.
• This request occurred after the Battle of Bunker Hill,
which the British won.
• The King denied the request of the petition.
• The Revolutionary War has now begun.