French and Indian War
These two countries claimed the Ohio Valley.
What are France and England?
Colonists were angry about taxes because they had no this in Parliament.
What is representation?
The Committees of Correspondence were created to share this among the colonies.
What is information?
The Boston Massacre was a clash between these two groups.
Who are British soldiers and colonists / Bostonians?
British soldiers marched to Lexington and Concord to capture these two rebel leaders.
Who are John Hancock and Samuel Adams?
This group assisted the French in their attempt to maintain control of the Ohio Valley.
Who were Native Americans?
The Stamp Act was a tax on all of these.
What are paper documents / important documents?
The first Committee of Correspondence was formed by this person
Who is Samuel Adams?
On December 16, 1773, colonists tossed 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
British soldiers also marched to Concord to locate and confiscate these.
What are weapons hidden by the colonists?
When the French lost the French and Indian War, they surrendered all of these in North America.
What are land claims?
The Townshend Acts placed taxes on these four items.
What are glass, tea, paper, and paint?
Representatives from nine colonies met here to speak against the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
England punished colonists for the Boston Tea Party by creating these acts
What are the Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts?
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the beginning of this war.
What is the American Revolution?
Ben Franklin created the “Join, or Die” snake to encourage the colonies to do this.
What is join together / work together?
Colonists reacted to the Townshend Acts by refusing to buy taxed item
What is a boycott?
This phrase means colonists believed they should not be taxed if they did not have a voice in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This part of the Intolerable Acts forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
These colonial fighters fired at British soldiers from behind buildings, trees, and walls.
Who are colonial militiamen?
This royal announcement said colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
England gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales through this act.
What is the Tea Act?
The First Continental Congress sent a petition to King George III saying this was unfair.
What is Parliament’s taxation of the colonies without representation?
This part of the Intolerable Acts closed Boston Harbor using British warships.
What is the blockade of Boston Harbor?
This phrase describes the first shot fired at Lexington because it marked the start of the American Revolution.
What is “the shot heard ’round the world”?