Causes of the American Revolution

A group of delegates representing all the American colonies, except Georgia which met in 1774

From the Navigation Acts, aimed to compensate for the money spent on the war with the French

To require colonists to provide lodging, goods, and transportation to British forces

Documents which served as search warrants; customs officials searched for smuggled goods

The Colonists believed in their own sovereignty. Another word for sovereign is:

The rallying cry for the colonists against unfair taxation was

Protests of the Stamp Act by the colonists resulted in

Acts placed on the colonists as punishment for the Boston Tea Party

Indirect tax collected at the ports on goods, such as tea, glass and paper

Network of local groups that informed colonists of British measures and the opposition to them

Act which gave Parliament full power and authority to make laws in the colonies

Colonists lost land in this act, saw it as further punishment

Created the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence in Boston

Young VA representative who argued that the colonial assemblies had the right to tax colonists

A group of colonial Patriots who formed in opposition to unfair British laws and taxes

Lawyer that represented the British in the Boston Massacre court case

Raised revenue for the British Empire through taxation of the colonial printed materials

Colonial consumer boycotts of British exports in response to taxes passed by Parliament

Most Loyalists believed

The British policy of allowing the colonists to self-rule