Causes of the American Revolution PreAssessment

When fighting began, most Americans wanted the colonies to be independent from Great Britain.  

As a result of the Treaty of Paris, America's western boundary was the Rocky Mountains.

Imposed taxes like the sugar and stamp tax were considered harsh in the minds of colonists.

The Quartering Act made the colonists pay the salaries of British soldiers.  

The Boston Massacre was responsible for hundreds of deaths.  

The British gov't asked colonists to pay back some of the debt from the French & Indian War.  

The Boston Tea Party was organized by African American women.  

Sam Adams organized the patriotic group called the Sons of Liberty.

Propaganda posters such as the engravings by Paul Revere are entirely truthful.  

The shots fired at Lexington & Concord later became known as the "shot heard 'round the world"