French and Indian War
The area claimed by France and England where the French and Indian War was fought.
Ohio River Valley
French and Indians vs. Colonists and ____________.
British
Political cartoon designed to unite the colonies.
Join or Die cartoon
Demanded that colonists house and provide for British troops in the colonies. 1765
Quartering Act
Event where British soldiers shot, wounded, and killed several colonists who were throwing rocks and snowballs at them. 1770
Boston Massacre
The imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains that the colonists were told not to cross after the French and Indian War.
Proclamation Line of 1763
Expensive resources trapped in the Ohio River Valley
Fur
Ben Franklins plan that the Join or Die cartoon was designed to support.
Albany Plan of Union
Stamp Act
New system to enforce import duties (taxes) and support customs officers.
Townshend Acts
Most Native American tribes allied themselves with this country during the French and Indian War.
France
Name of the river running through the Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River
Men who joined together to oppose British laws and taxes in the colonies.
Sons of Liberty
Result of events such as the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts
Unified the colonists against the British.
Lowered the cost of tea but gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly over tea. 1773
Tea Act
The territories given to England as a result of the war.
Ohio River Valley (French)
Florida Territory (Spain)
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Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and through tea from British ships into the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
Stated that England was still in charge of the colonies and that the colonies must pay taxes and follow the law.
Declaratory Act
Network created to allow colonists to communicate about British actions.
Committees of Correspondence
Built to protect colonists from the French and serve as a trading post. It was capture by Cherokee warriors.
Fort Loudoun
Debtor Colony
Georgia
Author of Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
One reason that the colonists believed that England should no longer have any authority over the colonies.
British Government was too far away from the colonies.
Result of the Acts of Parliament and taxation without representation.
American Revolutionary War