Cause: Competition between Britain and France for North America. Effect: British victory, massive debt, end of salutary neglect.

Cause: British need for revenue. Effect: Colonial resistance, Stamp Act Congress, eventual repeal.

Cause: British attempt to bail out the East India Company. Effect: Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts.

Cause: The Tea Act. Effect: Intolerable Acts, increased tensions, move toward revolution.

Cause: Britain needed revenue after the French and Indian War. Effect: Increased British control, colonial resentment.

Cause: Need for British revenue and asserting authority. Effect: Colonial boycotts, increased tensions, and eventual repeal of most of the acts.

Cause: British desire to reduce the cost of stationing troops in the colonies. Effect: Colonial resentment and resistance, seen as an infringement on their rights.

Cause: British desire to control colonial trade for their own economic benefit. Effect: Colonial resentment and smuggling, but also some economic benefits for certain colonists.

Cause: Colonial belief that they should not be taxed without having representatives in Parliament. Effect: United colonial resistance and fueled the movement towards independence.

Cause: Colonial grievances and desire for a unified response to British policies. Effect: Petition to King George III, establishment of the Committee of Correspondence, and a move towards greater colonial unity.

British policy of minimal interference in colonial affairs during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The colonists' core grievance: they should not be taxed without representatives in Parliament.

Boycotts of British goods enacted by the colonists.

A secret society that used boycotts, protests, and intimidation to resist British control.

Women who supported the cause by organizing boycotts and producing goods to replace imports.

Violent protests used to intimidate tax collectors and British officials.

A meeting in 1765 where colonists demanded the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible manipulation of prices.

A refusal to buy or use goods and services.

A colony-wide network established to share information and coordinate resistance efforts.

Tax on sugar, molasses, and other imports.

Required colonists to house and supply British soldiers.

Tax on all printed materials; major trigger for colonial resistance.

Taxes on imported goods like glass, lead, paint, and tea.

Granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales.

Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

Colonies met to discuss grievances and petition Parliament.

A conflict between Britain and France for control of North America, resulting in a British victory but also a large debt.

Acts that required goods to be shipped on British ships, regulating trade for British benefit.

Colonial delegates met to protest the Stamp Act and assert that taxation without representation was tyranny.