The American colonies traded raw materials to Britain: Britain trades with African Empires: slaves are sent to colonies: molasses and sugar are sent to colonies from The Caribbean.
What is The Triangular Trade?
100
The British felt American colonists should pay some of the costs of the war and the upkeep of British troops.
Why the British began taxing American colonists
100
Groups set up by Sam Adams and others to keep up with news and actions against the British government in other colonies were called:
What were Committees of Correspondence?
100
Colonial militias began to increase training to be ready for fighting in short order. These soldiers were called:
Who were The Minute Men?
200
Britain limited American colonial cargoes to British ports carried on British ships with these acts.
What were the Navigation Acts
200
One of the first taxes on American colonists by the British Parliament was a tax on molasses and sugar. It also included punishment for smugglers (1764)
What was The Sugar Act?
200
In 1773, Parliament passed an act to help The British East India Company by allowing the company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the colonies. Many colonists resented the competition and the fact that there was still a tax on tea. The act was called:
What was The Tea Act of 1773?
200
"Give Me Liberty, or a Cure For Bad Breath" was misunderstood by Virginia legislators to be "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" The Virginia firebrand defied both the British King and disgusting mouth germs.
Who was Patrick Henry?
300
The colonies traded raw materials for finished goods from Britain. This cause one area to rely on the other. This is an example of:
What is interdependence?
300
The first of two acts passed by Parliament to force colonists to pay for housing and food for British troops stationed in the colonies was:
What was The Quartering Act (1765)
300
The dressed as Native-Americans and on December 16, 1773 "brewed" 90,000 pounds of English tea in Boston Harbor (tossing it overboard)
What was The Boston Tea Party?
300
On the night of April 18, 1775, several riders warned colonial militias that "The Regulars" were coming to capture both weapons stored by Sons of Liberty and leaders John Hancock and Sam (The Brewer) Adams. The riders were: William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott and a third, a silversmith.
Who was Paul Revere?
400
Called "The Seven Years War", this world war's North American events were called this:
What is The French and Indian War?
400
This 1765 law passed by Parliament imposed taxes on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, contracts, itunes (not really), other documents and playing cards.
What was The Stamp Act?
400
Britain responded to colonial attacks on tea shipments by closing the port of Boston, increased the power of the royal governor, cut the powers of colonial meetings and strengthened the Quartering Act. The British called them "The Coercive Acts" Colonials called them:
What were The Intolerable Acts
400
The first shots fired in The Revolutionary War were fired on the green in this town, leaving 8 colonists dead.
What is Lexington?
500
After Pontiac's raids, the British declared that no American colonists could settle WEST of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was The Proclamation of 1763?
500
Citizens in many colonies responded by refusing to purchase British products and services requiring revenue stamps.
What is a boycott?
500
Committees of Correspondence called for a meeting of representatives from each colony to discuss increasing tensions between Britain and the colonies in September, 1774. The meeting of reps from 12 of 13 colonies became known as:
What was The First Continental Congress?
500
The British marched to a town where they found and burned colonial arms. They fought colonial militia at The Old North Bridge where three British soldiers were killed. Later, hundreds of British were killed or wounded trying to get back to Boston. What was the name of the town?