This student notes document introduces students to the "Causes of the American Revolution" by discussing the long-term origins and short-term causes of the Revolution, The Sugar Act, The Currency Act, The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The Townshend Crisis, tarring and feathering, the Boston Massacre, The Tea Act, The Boston Tea Party, The Intolerable Acts, the First and Second Continental Congress, The Declaration of Independence and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. On the left side of the