Acts
Put a tax on official documents
Stamp act
Sons of liberty throw goods into the harbor
Boston Tea Party
Leader of the sons of liberty
Sam Adams
Ended the French Indian War
Treaty of Paris
Why did the british raise taxes on colonists
pay for french indian war
Put a tax on tea and sugar
Tea act and sugar act
British soldiers fire at unarmed protestors killing 5
Boston Massacre
Leader of England During Rev. War
King George III
Who got the French land west of the Mississippi
Spain
Published Join or Die cartoon and was a member of First continental congress
Ben Franklin
Made it so that colonists had to give British soldiers shelter and food.
Quartering act
After the intolerable acts representatives from all 13 colonies met to form the first what
Continental congress
What were 2 ways the British punished the colonists as part of the intolerable acts
closed Boston harbor, martial law, replaced local officials, moved more troops into Boston
Who got the Ohio river valley after the French Indian war
Britain
Group of radical colonists who wanted freedom from Britain, responsible for Boston tea party
Sons of Liberty
What were 2 things colonists did to protest high taxes.
Marched in streets, boycotted British goods, smuggled in goods from other countries
The British passed this in response to the Boston tea party also called the coercive acts
intolerable acts
Type of economy that revolves around trade
Mercantilism
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
Made it so colonists could not cross the Appalachian MNTS.
Responsible for winning French Indian War for Britain by borrowing money for war.
William Pitt
Passed in 1651 to ensure the colonists could only trade with England wasn't enforced until after the French Indian War
Navigations act
What were 2 things the continental congress did after meeting
called for boycott, wrote letter to king George, told colonists to start training militia
First casualty of the American Rev. was a Black man
Crispus Attucks
Explain George Washington's role in starting the French Indian war
Led Virginia militia into western Pennsylvania got into fight with French settlers
Lawyer who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre
John Adams