Causes of the American Revolution Test Review

Radical colonists tossed chests of tea into the water in Boston Harbor in what became known as the ___________

A reason the British called for the meeting of colonial leaders in the Albany Congress was to try to ally with the _____

The decisive (key) battle that helped the British win the French and Indian War was the Battle of _________

Religious revival movement that swept through the British American Colonies in the 1730s

_________________ was sent by the British to remove the French from the Ohio River Valley

_____________ made an engraving depicting the Boston Massacre that is often considered to be propoganda

Pontiac, a chief of the _________, led attacks against British colonial expansion during Pontiac's War / Rebellion

The British lost a major battle at what became known as the Disaster at _________________________

law passed by Parliament that required colonists to house British soldiers stationed in the American colonies

British laws passed to control colonial trade; They banned the colonies from trading with any nations besides Britain

The act of engaging in illegal trade

__________________: The British policy that said that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountain

Minister who traveled throughout the colonies giving emotional sermons to huge crowds during the Great Awakening

Helped start the Great Awakening with his "fire and brimstone" sermons such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

The Treaty of ______________ ended the French and Indian War (the British won)

Daniel Boone led settlers through the _______________ Gap to get to Kentucky and Tennessee

______________ printed the "Join or Die" political cartoon to try to convince the colonies to unite to help the British

_____________: according to this economic philosophy, colonies existed to enrich the mother country

Laws passed by Parliament that were sponsored by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer; import taxes

_________________________ led colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

5 British colonists (including Crispus Attucks) were killed by British soldiers at the ______________________

The Cherokee attacked British soldiers and their families in what became known as the Massacre at Fort ____________

What the colonists called the laws passed by Parliament to punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party

Passed by Parliament to appease opponents of the repeal of the Stamp Act

Benjamin Franklin proposed that the British North American colonies organize under a more centralized government in the

He was the member of the Sons of Liberty (a patriot group) that started the first Committee of Correspondence

first direct tax levied on the American colonists by Parliament

________________ defended the soldiers who killed colonists in the Boston Massacre

A cause of the French and Indian War was that both the French and the British claimed the

The John Peter Zenger Trial Resulted in _______________________ in the American colonies