1. Which enlightenment thinkers ideas were used to shape the United States Government?
A. Locke B. Montesquieu C. Hobbes D. Rousseau

2. Causes of the American Revolution

3. Actions by the British
The French & Indian War = Cost England Big $$$ - Taxed Colonists to repay
The Stamp Act = Tax on every paper document

4. Actions by the Colonists
The Boston “Massacre” = Work protest turns violent (4 colonists died)
The Boston Tea Party = 18,000 lbs of tea dumped into Boston Harbor (Tea Trade $)

6. Violence Breaks Out!
Battles of Lexington, Concord, & Bunker Hill = 1st fighting between British soldiers & Colonists