The American Revolution

Question 1

What Were The Causes?

Answer 1

~ The Navigation Acts
~ The Townsend Acts
~ The Boston Massacre
~ The Boston Tea Party
~ The Intolerable Acts
~ The First Continental Congress
~ The Stamp Act

Question 2

Navigation Acts

Answer 2

Forced colonies to sell some of their products (cotton,sugar,tobacco) to Britain alone. Meaning Britain chose the price, as the Americas had nobody else to sell to. This led to a lot of smuggling, and clashes with the British navy.

Question 3

Townsend Acts

Answer 3

~ After repealing (taking away) the Stamp Act.
~ Placed taxes on goods that America imported, such as tea, glass, paint and lead.

Question 4

The Boston Massacre

Answer 4

After the Townsend Act, tension and protests continued. In 1770 a Boston mob, confronted a group of British soldiers. The soldiers opened fire and five people were killed.

Question 5

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 5

The British passed the Tea Act in 1773, which exempted the East India Company from paying the tea tax. In December 1773, a group from Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 crates of East India Company tea into Boston harbour.

Question 6

The Intolerable Acts

Answer 6

~ Used on Boston and the colony of Massachusetts.
~ The port of Boston was closed until compensation was paid for the tea, the city was put under military rule and the colony’s assembly was suspended.

Question 7

The First Continental Congress

Answer 7

~ Representatives of the colonies met in the Continental Congress (september 1774)
~ The Congress opposed all British taxes, urged a boycott of British goods and demanded removal of British soldiers.
~ Some colonies wanted war, but authorities didn’t want to go that far. So there were secret groups in the colonies gathering weapons and militias (part time armies) and began to train themselves.

Question 8

The Stamp Act

Answer 8

All legal documents, wills, newspapers, certificates and playing cards had to have a government stamp- which had to be paid for.