When a company controls an entire industry we call it this.
What is a monopoly?
100
These are the two different names given to the colonists and an explanation of who was loyal to and who opposed the King.
What are Patriots (opposed the King) and Loyalists (colonists who stayed loyal to the King)?
100
These TWO places are where the first battles of the American Revolution took place.
What are Lexington and Concord?
100
The British government passed acts to help them gain money. These were called the Tea Act, Stamp Act, and what two other acts?
What are the Quartering Act and the Sugar Act?
100
This is who won the French and Indian war.
What are the British?
200
This is when you gain freedom from one country and becoming your own.
What is Independence?
200
Crispus Attucks, a former slave, yelled to the crowd, "The way to get rid of these soldiers is to attack the main guard." This was the beginning of the confusion that led to what conflict?
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
This is who was on each side in the French and Indian War.
What is the British were fighting against the French and Indians?
200
This act said that people had to pay a tax any time they bought a newspaper or pamphlet or signed a legal document.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This is why the French won many battles in the war.
What is because they had dark clothing and hid in the woods?
300
The was signed by the French and British to officially end the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
This woman was a poet who encouraged other women to give up tea and other goods from Britain.
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
300
This stated that colonists could not claim or buy land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
This was the main reason why the British were taxing the colonists.
What is to earn money back because of the war?
300
This was the name of groups of colonists who organized protests against the British Government.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
400
The law passed by the British in 1774 that closed Boston Harbor and forced Boston colonists to house British Soldiers.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
Native Americans tried to push the British out if their land. This man was the Native American leader at the time.
Who was Chief Pontiac?
400
A protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
These were a few ways that colonists protests the taxes.
What is threw snowballs, called names, boycotted goods, and dumped tea in the harbor?
400
A meeting of the colonial leaders to help them become united and to determine what political action to take against Britain was created.
What is The First Continental Congress?
500
These were groups that were formed in order to keep colonists informed of important things happen in other colonies.
What is Committees of Correspondence?
500
This person is know for his line, "The British are coming!" He said this when he learned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord to warn others.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
This was the year in which the Treaty of Paris was signed and the war ended.
What is 1763?
500
This was what was passed that said the colonists had to pay taxes on all the tea, paper, glass, lead, and paint that they imported from Britain.