Group 1
This Act passed a law that that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
True or False:
The Treaty of Paris officially named the United States of America as a new country.
What is true ?
Another word for a British soldier?
What is a redcoat?
A formal agreement concluded between two or more countries.
What is a treaty?
The French were fighting the British for control of land in the Ohio Valley. Some Native American tribes fought with the British and others fought with the French. What war was this
What is the French and Indian War?
To protest something by refusing to buy, use, or participate.
What is boycott?
The agreement that ended the French and Indian war?
What is Paris peace Treaty?
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
What is Mercantilism?
People who supported Great Britain and the king were called this term.
What are loyalists?
There were a group of ________ (#)colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries which declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America
What is 13?
Money that was owed after the French and Indian war?
What is Great Britain Debt?
The war of 1775—83 in which 13 British colonies in North America broke free from British rule and became the United States of America.
What is the American revolution?
Dressed as Native Americans, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These individuals depended on the British for trade; fought for both sides during the war.
What are Native Americans?
The date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4,1776
a riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, arising from the resentment of colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
What is the Boston Massacre?
People in the thirteen colonies who supported independence were called this term.
What is patriots?
Most Americans on the frontier who took a side in the Revolutionary War supported-
a. the Patriots
b. the British
c. the Native Americans
d. the Spanish
What is Patriots?
True or False: The Declaration of Independence ends by stating that the 13 colonies are free from British rule. It renamed the colonies the United States of America.
What is True?
It refers to the idea of imposing taxes on people who have no recourse against or control over the taxing authority.
What is Taxation without representation?