1. 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?

2. French and Indian War $ Needed to pay debt Refused to pay tax (taxation w/out representation) Stamp Act Sons of Liberty forms Towns- hend Acts Daughters of Liberty forms Colonists Refuse to buy imported goods A tax on imported goods Boston Massacre 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 1 st Continental Congress meets Began training militia Voted to stop trading w/ Britain War was inevitable

3. 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.