Causes and Effects of the American Revolution

Journal: Dominos is a game where you match up numbers on tiles. However, many people prefer to stand them on edge, create a pattern, and let them knock each other over. The causes of the American Revolution have a “domino effect”. What does this

mean?

French and

Indian War

$ Needed to pay debt

Refused to pay tax (taxation

w/out representation)

Stam

p A

ct

Sons of Liberty forms

Towns-hend Acts

Da

ug

hte

rs o

f Lib

erty

form

s

Colonists

Refuse to

buy im

ported goods

A tax on imported

goods

Boston

Ma

ssacre

King George order

troops to colonies

Stamps on

printed materials

Boston Tea

Party

All taxes removed but tea

tax

Port of Boston

closed until tea $ repaid

Intoler-able Acts

Quartering Act (feed

and house soldiers)

Forced colonists to take sides

Hurt businesses

that depended

on port

Patriots supported

Boston

Loyalists supported

King George III

1st

Continental

Congress m

eets

Be

ga

n

train

ing

m

ilitia

Vo

ted

to

stop

tra

din

g w

/ B

ritain

Wa

r wa

s in

evita

ble

ASSIGNMENT:The students are to cut out each domino and arrange them in the proper order to show cause and effect chains. They should glue them down on a piece of construction paper (supplied by me) when they have it correct.