Taxes
What was the sugar act?
Tax on sugar, molasses, and other things.
What is one reason people in America wanted slaves from Africa?
Answers vary
Explain the Boston Tea Party.
Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped British tea into the ocean.
Who fought who in the French and Indian War?
British vs French
What is a good brought into a country called?
Import
What was the Tea Act?
Tax on tea.
Before then taken to the coast and sold into slavery, Africans were typical captured by whom?
Other Africans. Fighting Tribes
What was the policy that forced colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers?
Quartering Act
Who won the French and Indian War?
British
What is Guerilla Warfare?
Fighting style in which one side does sneak attacks, retreats, and hides often
What was the act that required colonists to pay a tax on paper documents like birth certificates, marriage certificates, newspapers, stamps, and other things.
Stamp Act
The 3 branch trading system referred to as the triangular trade went between what 3 continents?
Have to say Europe, Africa, and either North America or South America.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
policy that prevented colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains? (a lot of colonists did it anyways though)
What is another name for the French and Indian War?
7 years war
Explain the difference between "loose packing" and "tight packing"?
Loose packing is when the put less African slaves on the ship to try and increase the survival rate. Tight packing is when the crammed the ship as full as possible.
What were the Townshend Acts?
Tax on common items.
What percentage of slaves died on the ship in the middle passage?
15-20%
What was the event where 5 colonists were killed after British soldiers fired into a crowd a colonists that were protesting?
Boston Massacre
What well know person fought for the British and gained experience during the French and Indian War?
George Washington
Boycott
DAILY DOUBLE: Question read out loud after wager decided.
Tax on imported goods.
How long did the trip typically take on the middle passage?
21-80 days or 1-3 months
What was the policy that put heavy restrictions like no town hall meeting on the city of Boston in response to the Boston Tea party?
Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts (Same thing)
What was the turning point of the French and Indian War?
Britain borrowed a lot of money and went into debt in order to get the advantage and win the war.
What is the belief that trade generates wealth? The idea is export as much as possible and import very little.
Mercantilism