Causes of the American Revolution

"...give me liberty or give me death!"

"Americans, as British citizens, must pay their taxes!"

"A government of our own is our natural right..."

"We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately!"

Britain's refusal to provide financial aid to the colonies

the limitations placed by Parliament of religious freedom in the colonies

the colonists' opposition to being taxed without representation in the British Parliament

Britain giving support to the Native Americans fighting against the colonists

handling of British Parliament's response to the actions of the Sons of Liberty during the Boston Tea Party

passage of the Proclamation that halted the colonists expanding into the lands acquired from the French and Indian War

agreement made by the King and Parliament to place a tax on all printed material in the colonies

economic policies imposed by Great Britain without colonial representation following the French and Indian War

passed a series of laws designed to restrict colonial trade and disrupt colonial government

wanted to ask France to sell their territory west of the Mississippi river

began enacting economic policies on the colonies to help pay for the war

closed Boston Harbor and passed laws forcing colonists to house British troops

England closes harbor to all shipping, issues the Quartering Act, and restricts town meetings.

Parliament passes a law that restricts the expansion of the colonists past the Appalachian Mountains.

General Burgoyne's men surrender in what turns out to be the turning point battle of the war.

Washington's leadership is tested when his men have no supplies during a brutally cold winter.

"They are committing treason by signing that document."

"Those colonists want war...Then they will have it."

"They will pay for dumping my tea overboard...make them submit to my authority."

"Those colonists are not going to be allowed to move past the mountains...I will not pay to protect them from the Native Americans."

Virginia Herald

Patriot Press

London Observer

Boston Globe

Effects of Shays' Rebellion

Causes of the American Revolution

Causes of the French and Indian War

Effects of the American Revolution

limiting the westward expansion of the colonies by giving weapons to the Native Americans to use against the colonists

requiring the colonists to give housing and supplies to all the British troops that were stationed in the colonies

use of the free enterprise system which prevented the colonies from smuggling imports and exports

practice of mercantilism that used the raw materials in the colonies and kept them dependent on finished products from Britain

"Britain is taxing all the goods that we import from them, even such necessities of paper and tea."

"Britain gets rich from making us buy the manufactured goods that they make with our raw materials."

"The King has placed limits on our expansion, even though we fought and died to gain the territory past the Appalachian Mountains."

"We are tired of not having a voice in the representative houses of Parliament that make laws we must abide by."

being taxed without any voice in government

having to pay to house British soldiers

being forced to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains

not being protected from the Native Americans

shots at Lexington were the opening shots of the revolution

closing of the Boston Harbor harmed the colonial economy

colonists were throwing stones and sticks at the soldiers

British soldiers fired on an unarmed group of colonists

The British viewed the line as a way to avoid hostilities between Native Americans and colonists, but colonists believed the line limited their freedom and challenged land claims already in place.

The British viewed the line as a way to provide land for new settlers, but colonists believed they already owned the land west of the line.

The British viewed the line as a way to offer safe territories for Native Americans, but colonists believed they should share all the land with the different tribes.

The British viewed the line as a way to prevent the French from entering the colonies, but colonists believed the line did not provide enough protection from the French and Native Americans.

refusal of the colonists to support the French and Indian War

Virginia Resolves that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies

Boston Tea Party and other colonial protests of the Tea Act of 1773

formation of the First Continental Congress in the colonies

refusal of the colonists to support the French and Indian War

Virginia Resolves that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies

formation of the First Continental Congress in the colonies

Boston Tea Party and other colonial protests of the Tea Act of 1773