Relacionar Columnas Causes of the American Rev.Versión en línea Looking at the reasons why the Colonies go to war with Britain por Robert Smith 1 Stamp Act 2 1st Continental Congress 3 Boston Tea Party 4 Intolerable Act 5 Proclamation of 1763 6 2nd Continental Congress 7 Sugar Act 8 Olive Branch Petition 9 Boston Massacre 10 Slogan used by the colonists protest Taxes 11 Tea Act 12 of the 13 Colonies met for the first time to discuss what to do in Response to British Taxes 5 Innocent colony people are killed in an incident involving British soldiers. Crispus Attucks is the first killed. Lowering the the cost of British tea in order to collect taxes on it from Colonial citizens Last chance at Peace with England. Sent from the Second Con. Congress Tax on Molasses; Colonies begin to Boycott Tax on paper products. Colonists hold the stamp act congress to discuss how to best deal with this tax. Sent the Olive Branch Created the Continental Army Selected George Washington to lead the Army Wrote the Declaration of Ind. Stated no one was allowed to move out past the Appalachian Mountains. Angered the Colonists British response to the Boston tea party. It closed the port of Boston and reinstated the Quartering Act. No Taxation without representation Sons of liberty in response to the Tea Act dump tons of British tea into the sea at Boston