MERCANTILISM
The British system of mercantilism was designed to
Make more $$ for Britain
The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was fought between the following two countries
Britain & France
What was the Stamp Act?
A British law that forced the colonists to pay a tax on any papers.
What caused the Boston Massacre?
Colonists were upset about high taxes. They started heckling British soldiers. Someone threw a snowball and/or rock and the soldiers started firing at the colonists.
What are the Founding Fathers most known for?
Writing the Declaration of Independence and winning the Revolutionary War
How did mercantilism lead to the American Revolution?
The colonists were upset because they were forced to trade with Britain.
During the French and Indian War, the two countries were fighting over control of…
Land West of the 13 Colonies
What did colonists dislike most about the Stamp Act?
They had no representatives to vote on the tax.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A protest by the Americans against the unfair taxes imposed on them by the British Government
What is one argument for the Founding Fathers being known as heroes?
They helped colonists gain freedom from the British
How did the colonists avoid paying large taxes?
The colonists avoided paying large taxes by trading with other countries illegally.
What was a result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution?
Britain imposed taxes on the American colonists to help pay off war debts
What was the colonists’ slogan when they were protesting the Stamp Act?
No taxation without representation!
What sparked the Boston Tea Party?
A new tax on tea
On April 18, 1775, a force of 700 British soldiers left Boston in search of a major colonial weapons storehouse rumored to be located in Concord because…
They didn’t want the colonists to have any weapons.
How did the American colonists respond to the Navigation Acts?
They were angry and disliked the Navigation Acts.
What happened to the land west of the Appalachian Mountains after the end of the war?
The land was to The Native Americans
The Sons of Liberty tarred-and-feathered a British tax collector. What most likely motivated these Americans to attack and torture a tax collector?
Americans were angry about the taxes that Parliament created and them not having any representation in Parliament.
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 by England as a punishment for what?
The Boston Tea Party
The Declaration of Independence (1776) has had a major influence on peoples throughout the world because it
establishes a basic set rights for people
This group of people attempted to land in Virginia but were blown off course and founded Plymouth.
Who were the Pilgims (Puritans?)
Why were the colonists told that they were not allowed to move west of that Proclamation Line?
Fear that the Native American would be hostile.
What was the name of the tax that taxed colonist for lead and glass?
The Townsend Act
“You cannot blame them. The colonists had simply gotten out of control. The soldiers were simply protecting themselves from a raucous crowd, bent on violence.”
Was most likely said by
A Loyalist
The following person helped to turn the American cause around at Valley Forge…
George Washington