French and Indian War
This European war in North America was fought between Britain and France, with Native American groups fighting on both sides.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1765 law placed a tax on printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group organized protests and sometimes destroyed property in opposition to British taxation.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
These battles in April 1775 marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This city became the center of major colonial resistance to British policies.
what is Boston?
The end of the French and Indian War led to a treaty in which major city in Europe in 1763?
What is Paris?
Colonists used this phrase to argue that Parliament should not tax them because they had no elected representatives in Parliament.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This famous 1773 protest involved colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document formally declared that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Although Britain won the French and Indian War, the war created this major problem that contributed to tensions with the American colonies.
What is Britain's large war debt?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company an advantage in selling tea and helped spark colonial protest.
What is the Tea act?
This group of colonial representatives met in 1774 to coordinate a response to British policies.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This author wrote Common Sense, which argued that the colonies should become independent from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine (T-PAINE !)
This 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This future president gained military experience while serving with the British during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
This act placed taxes on imported goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This was a method used by the sons of liberty in reaction to the stamp act
What is Tarring and Feathering?
the major Enligthenment influencer of Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke?
Although rather a loyalist at the beginning, and even defending British Troops in court, he later became a primary figure in American Independence and eventually 2nd president of the United States
who is John Adams?
Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 led the British to implement what major new land policy that restricted colonists from crossing over west of the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This was the act implemented by the British in reaction to the infamous Boston Tea Party? Caused Boston to be shut down and occupied by the British Military.
What is the intolerable Acts?
This was the first african-american in March of 1770, to be shot in the name of colonial resistance
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson ... what was their group called, in charge of writing the Declaration?
What is the Committee of Five?
Get out a sheet of paper
Put these events in the correct order: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington and Concord.
What is Boston Massacre → Boston Tea Party → Intolerable Acts → Lexington and Concord?