United States History Student Edition

Summary Reviewing The American Revolution 10

Effect/Cause • colonial boycotts of British goods • committees of correspondence • Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty • the Boston Tea Party • First Continental Congress • Fighting between American militia and British troops at • Second Continental Congress • Common Sense • the Declaration of Independence

Effect • The American Revolution

Cause • the French and

Indian War and the Proclamation of 1763 • writs of assistance • the Sugar Act • the Stamp Act • the Townshend Acts • the Boston Massacre • the Tea Act • the Intolerable Acts

Lexington and Concord

» General George Washington

» Colonists in Boston protest the Stamp Act in 1765.

(l)Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, (r)The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of William H. Huntington, 1885

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