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4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution (NAT)

3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals (SOC, WOR)
Explain how and why colonial attitudes about government and the individual changed in the years
leading up to the American Revolution.

Causation Practice: Road to Revolution

Instructions: Complete the following chart using your notes, readings, and outside research.

Event Action Reaction

Proclamation Line, 1763
Sugar Act, 1764
Currency Act, 1764
Stamp Act, 1765
Quartering Act, 1765
Declaratory Act, 1766
Townsend Revenue Acts, 1767
Cause: Pontiac’s Rebellion
Explanation: They hoped to
ensure that the Natives would
not become enraged.
Cause: To stop smuggling
Explanation: They wanted to get
money from the colonists that
were paying for smuggling.
Cause: Colonial money has no
value
Explanation: The colonial
money was showing up more
and more and it cannot be
spent in anywhere else besides
the colonies.
Cause: Money for debt and
keeping army on frontier
Explanation: They needed
money for their previous wars
and to keep their military in the
colonies.
Cause: Military costs money
Explanation: They can save
money on housing if they use
colonist housing to quarter the
military.
Cause: Sons of Liberty, Stamp
Act Congress, they Boycott, and
they harass tax men
Explanation: They repel the
stamp act but claim they can,
just choose not to.
Cause: They no longer have the
stamp act.
Explanation: They tax luxury
goods that are imported.
Effect: Ignored the law
Explanation: They crossed over
the mountains because they
spent their time for that land
Effect: They boycott the
importation of sugar
Explanation: They want to
continue smuggling because it
makes them money.
Effect: Economy Collapses
Explanation: Some colonists did
not have British currency and
only had colonial currency
which was now useless.
Effect: Colonies freak out
Explanation: They create the
Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act
Congress, they Boycott, and
they harass tax men
Effect: Resist however possible
Explanation: They resist, but in
the end they have no other
choice.
Effect: The colonists realize that
they got Britain to stop taxing
them
Explanation:
Effect: Non-importation
Agreement
Explanation: They stop
importing British goods.
Boston Massacre, 1770
Tea Act, 1773
Intolerable Acts, 1774
New England Restraining Act,
1775
Olive Branch Petition, 1775
Cause: Quartering Act
Explanation: The colonists are
tired of the British military living
in their homes.
Cause: B.E. India Company is in
debt
Explanation: They give the
company a monopoly on the tea
industry.
Cause: Boston Tea Party
Explanation: They close the
Boston port, and the governor is
replaced with a general.
Cause:
Explanation:
Cause:
Explanation:
American Revolution begins
Effect: John Adams defends
soldiers in court and
propaganda spreads through
colonies
Explanation:
Effect: Boston Tea Party and
boycotts
Explanation: The colonists start
using substitutes for tea such as
coffee
Effect: First Continental
Congress
Explanation: This leads way to
the second Continental
Congress which also leads way
to a colonial government.
Effect:
Explanation:
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