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People, Symbols & Events
General Knowledge
100
Tax on paper goods
What was the Stamp Act?
100
Colonists' response to the Stamp Act
What are widespread boycotts and protests, and led to the Formation of the Sons of Liberty?
100
Conflict over land between Britian and France
What is the French and Indian War?
100
King George the III
Who was the Leader of Britain?
100
Freedom and Rights
What is liberty?
200
Quartering Act
What required colonists to house British Soldiers?
200
Silence Dogood
What was one pen name/psuedonym for Benjamin Franklin?
200
1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin and other colonial delegates to create a unified government
What was the Albany Plan?
200
What was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette to urge colonists to join together to protect themselves against further French aggression from the French and Indian War.
200
Arbitrary taxes imposed on people with no say.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
300
Sugar Act
What tax was placed on sugar and Molasses and made it easier to search and arrest people and their cargo?
300
Fort Necessity
What was constructed by (then) Lieutenent George Washington's malitia in Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War (also the site of Washington's only surrender).
300
Tyrants
What is: how colonists viewed Britain after the war?
300
The Boston Massacre
What was the riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in 5 deaths?
300
A punishment for the Boston Tea Party
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
The cause of the Boston Tea Party
What was the Tea Act?
400
Treaty of Paris (1783)
What did Benjamin Franklin help negotiate to end the French and Indian War?
400
The colonial governments' fears of losing power, territory, and commerce at one another's expense.
What is: why the Albany Plan failed?
400
Sons/Daughters of Liberty
Who are groups that went against British rule, protested, and believed in freedom?
400
Richard Saunders
What was one of Benjamin Franklin's pen names/psuedonyms?
500
Taxes on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
What were the Townshend Acts?
500
Restrictions that the Intolerable Acts placed on the colonists of Boston.
What are: Closed the Boston Port until damages of the Boston Tea Party were paid, restricted town meetings, increased British control, and increased British soldiers quartering in colonists' homes
500
The House of Burgeusses
What was the first democratically-elected legislature in the British colonies, established in Virginia in 1619 and operating until the American Revolution?
500
Proclamation of 1763
What did not allow settlers to move west past the Appalachian Mountains and forced them back east?
500
Mercantilism
What was the system in which colonial trade and business was controlled by Britain, to bring wealth to the "Mother Country".