Despite a high degree of local independence, few people in the colonies questioned England's _____________ in America.
What is sovereignty?
100
This conflict spread from the colonies to Europe, rather than vice versa.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
These Acts required that all importing and exporting of the colonies be done using only British ships.
What were the Navigation Acts?
100
This was a protest grouped formed in response to The Stamp Act.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
100
The founders of the American colonies were contemporaries of these scientists, who provided a new understanding of the natural world.
Who was Galileo, Descartes, and Newton?
200
The failure of the British Empire to establish a _____________________ government system contributed to the growth of 13 mostly-independent governments in America (and eventually led to war).
What is centralized/unified/singular/cohesive?
200
He was the man most responsible for leading the British to victory in the war between Britain and France between 1758-1763.
Who is William Pitt?
200
This act was the first one to truly anger the colonists and cause some of them to want organized resistance.
What is The Sugar Act?
200
This became a popular saying among colonists who believed their rights were being denied by the British government.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
200
One of the most famous colonials, he contributed to the accumulation of scientific knowledge in America.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
It was an economic system designed to make a country wealthy and self-sufficient, by exporting more than it imported.
What is mercantilism?
300
Daily Double!!!
Most of the Native American tribes took their side in the French and Indian War?
Who were the French colonists?
300
Daily Double!!!
This Act was the first direct tax on the colonists.
What is The Stamp Act?
300
This Act hurt the business of lawyers, merchants, and newspaper editors-people who greatly influenced public opinion in favor resisting the British government.
What is The Stamp Act?
300
With this treaty, France gave almost all its claims to North America.
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
400
These were the two main things a colony was designed to provide its mother country.
What are raw materials and new markets?
400
This future American leader was a young officer working for the British empire in the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
400
These Acts were nicknamed The Intolerable Acts by the American colonists.
What were The Coercive Acts?
400
The British government responded to the so-called "Boston Tea Party" by doing this.
What is close Boston Harbor to all business until the citizens of Boston paid for the tea that was destroyed?
400
He was the most famous American born religious leader of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
500
A wave of religious enthusiasm in colonial America, known as the Great Awakening, was the first truly _________ event in American history.
What is national?
500
The French and Indian War helped cause the American Revolution because the British government decided to _________ the colonists in order to _______ for the war.
What is tax the colonists in order to pay for the war?
500
Daily Double!!!
This act allowed British soldiers to use the property of colonists as housing whenever they needed it.
What is The Quartering Act?
500
Only the colony of Georgia refused to send a representative to this meeting of colonial leaders to consider common action against Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress? (just having this meeting was, legally speaking, an act of treason!)
500
Daily Double!!!
This new British policy prohibited settlement by American colonists across the Appalachian mountains.