1. Boston Tea Party
Cause and Effect

2. Effect
The event that happens

3. Cause
The thing that caused the even to happen

4. One Thing Leads to Another
Sometimes and effect can be the cause of another effect.
Example:
Cause: Victor got underneath Mrs.
Price’s feet.
Effect: Mrs. Price tripped and fell into the dining room table. (this now becomes the cause)
Effect: The table tipped over. (this now becomes the cause
Effect: Dinner plates crashed to the floor, shattering all over the dining room.

5. Cause
Although the British repealed most of the taes on the colonists, the Tea Act kept the tax on tea in place. This act also gave one British company control of all the tea trade, threatening the business of American tea merchants.

6. Effect
In 1773, a group of colonists, angered by the Tea Act, disguised themselves as Indians and boarded a British ship in Boston harbor. They dumped 343 crates of valuable tea into the harbor.

7. repercussions
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British closed Boston Harbor and forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers. The colonists called these the “Intolerable Acts.”