1. Road to the American Revolution

2. Events Sugar Act Stamp Act Townshend Acts Boston Massacre
Boston Tea party
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence

3. Sugar Act
CAUSE
To help lower taxes, in hope of slowing/stopping smuggling within the colonies.
EFFECT
Merchants and Traders made charges that the British government were taking away there rights.

4. Stamp Act
CAUSE
Used as a tool to help pay back the British government to help pay for the French & Indian War, and other wars in Europe.
EFFECT
Colonists harassed tax collectors and protested against the act.

5. Townshend Acts
CAUSE
Used to tax directly on goods of everyday use, such as, paint, glass, paper, playing cards, and tea.
EFFECT
Colonists protested and boycotted all British goods, causing the mercantilism to fail for Great Britain.

6. Boston Massacre
CAUSE
British soldiers were competing with colonists for jobs during their ‘off time’.
EFFECT
A fight breaks out between British soldiers and angry colonists, ending in the death of five colonists.

7. Boston Tea Party
CAUSE
Tea Act of 1773 declared, forcing colonists to buy British tea with a tax.
EFFECT
Sixty angry merchants, dressed as Native Americans, boarded three British ships and threw their loads of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.

8. Intolerable Acts CAUSE
Martial Law declared in response to Boston Tea Party.
Closed Boston Harbor until colonists paid for destroyed tea.
EFFECT
Prompted calling of the First Continental Congress.

9. First Continental Congress
CAUSE
Parliament’s passing of the Intolerable Acts.
EFFECT
Organized boycotts of British goods.

10. Lexington and Concord CAUSE
British troops learn of the colonists’ supply of weaponry in Concord and go to retrieve it.
EFFECT
Colony militiamen meet the British troops in Lexington and open fire on them.

11. Second Continental Congress
CAUSE
The first shots fired at Lexington, MA.
EFFECT
Managed colonial war efforts and slowly moved to independence.

12. Declaration of Independence
CAUSE
Great Britain ‘bullying’ the thirteen colonies.
Fighting between militiamen and British troops.
EFFECT
The Revolutionary War begins.