The British Acts 1
This Act passed in 1765 required that all colonists buy special stamps for all kinds of paper products likes newspapers, wills, and contracts.
What was The Stamp Act?
This Act passed in 1765 required colonists to house British Troops in their homes by force in order to save money for the Parliament.
What was The Quartering Act?
This is when in 1753 the French and British began to fight in North America over colonial lands.
What was The French and Indian War?
This event on March 5, 1770, saw an angry crowd of workers and sailors surrounded a small group of British soldiers. Five colonists were killed and six injured.
What was The Boston Massacre?
This is an organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products.
What is a boycott?
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What was Jamestown, Virginia.
This Act passed in 1764 by Parliament put an import tax on several things like molasses and called for harsh punishment on smugglers.
What was The Sugar Act?
This banned the colonists from moving westward past The Appalachian Mountains.
What was The Proclamation of 1763?
This is the area in North of America that the French and British started to fight over that started the French and Indian War in 1753.
What was The Ohio River Valley?
In 1754 This printer from Philadelphia designed the "Join or Die" flag.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This is a written request to a government about something specific.
What is a petition?
This was the last of the 13 original English colonies to be settled.
What was Georgia?
In 1773 this Act was passed indented to force the colonists to only purchase from The British East India Company and to raise taxes on imports.
What was the Tea Act?
The British Empire was deeply in debt after fighting The French and Indian War in 17 and felt that the colonists were not paying their fare share of defense of the 13 colonies.
Why did the British continue to pass new laws and taxes on the colonists?
This was the year and treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
What was The Treaty of Paris signed in the year 1763?
This was a document in 1688 that the Parliament in England forced King William and Queen Mary to sign that took even more powers away from the English monarchs. The king had to get permission to do things such as raise taxes, have a standing army.
What was The English Bill of Rights?
An agreement between nations or groups to help each other against other nations or groups, usually in war.
What is an alliance?
This was the first example of representative government in North America which started in Virginia in 1619.
What was The House of Burgesses?
These Acts passed in 1774 were a result of the Boston Tea Party that were thought up by British King George III. He wanted to punish the people of Boston and Massachusetts.
What were The Intolerable Acts?
These were court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching.
What were the Writs of Assistance?
This is what France lost in at the end of The French and Indian War.
What was Canada, along with almost all land territory in North America?
He was the lawyer for the British troops accused in the Boston Massacre. He was a native colonist from Massachusetts who became the second president of the United States.
This is a written list of freedoms that a government promises to protect.
What is a bill of rights?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
These four things are what The Intolerable Acts did to the colonists of Massachusetts.
1) The Port of Boston was closed. 2) The Royal Governor was given power over the local government 3) A murderer of a British official could be tried in Britain 4) The Quartering Act of 1765 was strengthened.
What was The Boston Tea Party?
This was the name of the French and Indian War around the other parts of the world. I called it World War Zero.
What was The Seven Years War?
He drew the picture of the Boston Massacre for the Boston newspapers and later went on a midnight ride towards Lexington and Concord to warn the colonists of an approaching British army.
Who was Paul Revere?
What was The Triangular Trade?
In 1215 English nobles forced King John of England to sign this document. It was the first document to place restrictions on an English ruler's powers.
What was The Magna Carta?