British Control
Road to Revolution
Rebellion
Preparing for War
Vocabulary
100
British law that banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
The area the French and the British were fighting over during the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100
People or groups involved in the Boston Tea Party.
What is colonials (or Sons of Liberty), East India Tea Company, and British Parliament?
100
The first step taken at the Second Continental Congress.
What is form an army?
100
The shutting off of a port by ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
What is a blockade?
200
The Act that required colonists to feed and house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
Colonists who remained loyal to Britain and the King.
What is a Loyalist?
200
The cause of the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
200
The gathering where George Washington was chosen as commander of the continental army.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
200
A military force made up of civilians trained as soldiers.
What is militia?
300

The Act that required colonists to buy stamps to put on many paper items like playing cards, wills, and degrees.

What is the Stamp Act?

300

TWO Laws included in the Intolerable Acts.

What is:

*Closed the port of Boston

*Increased the power of the royal governor

*Strengthened the Quartering Act

*Cut the power of town meetings

*Abolished upper House of Mass. Legislature

300
The reason colonists were upset about the Stamp Act.
What is the colonists believed that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies?
300
The purpose of the Olive Branch Petition?
What is to show that the colonists were loyal to Britain?
300
An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products.
What is a boycott?
400
The Act that claimed that Parliament had total authority over the colonies?
What is the Declaratory Act?
400
A colonist who favored independence and was willing to fight for it.
Who is a Patriot?
400

The British response to the Boston Tea Party.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

400
The place where the "shot heard around the world" was fired.
What is Lexington?
400

To cancel or officially end.

What is repeal?

500
The Act that created a monopoly on tea for the East India Tea Company.
What is the Tea Act?
500

The purpose for all the British taxes.

What is to pay back war debt from the French & Indian War?

500
The side that fired the first shot of the American Revolution.
What is no one knows?
500
The reason victory at Fort Ticonderoga was so important.
What is obtaining valuable weapons, such as cannons?
500
Total control of the market for a certain product.
What is a monopoly?
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