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The French Indian War was fought between these two countries.
Who are France and Britain?
This event occurred on March 5th, 1770, where 5 people died.
What is the Boston Massacre?
A person who stayed loyal to the king of England, King George.
What is a loyalist?
King George closed the Boston Harbor because of this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What is a petition?
This is the first person to fall in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Atticus?
England fought against France and Native Americans for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the French and Indian War?
Ready to fight in a minute's notice
Who are minutemen?
Placed a tax on molasses and other things not from Britain.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
To make money with taxes.
What is revenue?
He is the King of Britain (England)
Who is King George?
This stated that colonists could not move to the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
To refuse to buy
What is a boycott?
These were taxes on any printed materials (books, legal papers, newpapers, ect.).
What is the Stamp Act?
British placed a tax on things like glass and paint.
Writs of Assistance were issued that allowed the British to search for smuggling without evidence.
What were the Townshend Acts? (1767)
These were a group of men who protested the king of England and tried to rally support from other colonists by using propaganda.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
These battles marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What are the battles of Lexington and Concord? (1775)
To cancel a law
What is Repeal?
Colonist had to give supplies and shelter to British Soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act of 1765?
Samuel Adams called for a Boston town meeting to create a committee who communicated Boston's position on issues to the other colonies.
What was the Committee of Correspondence? (1772)
He made a famous ride warning the colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
In response to to the taxes on tea, Patriots dressed as Indians boarded 3 English ships and dumped tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A rag doll of an unpopular person
What is an effigy?
The British passed these new laws as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts of 1774?
Where representatives from all colonies met in Philadelphia, except Georgia.
They wrote a "Declaration of Rights"
And they planned a Boycott of British goods.
What was the First Continental Congress? (1774)