French and Indian War
The area the French and English fighting over.
What is the Ohio River Valley/Territory?
This 1765 law taxed printed goods like playing cards, newspapers, and documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
He wrote the influential pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
A refusal to buy or use goods and services.
What is a boycott?
This 1770 event saw British guards open fire on a crowd, killing five Americans.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This imaginary line, drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, was intended to prevent colonists from moving west and causing conflict with Native American tribes.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Taxes that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that were placed on leads, glass, paint and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
As a member of the Sons of Liberty, he started the Committees of Correspondence.
Who is Sam Adams?
This term refers to information, often biased or misleading, used to promote a political cause.
What is propoganda?
Disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, colonists dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor from three ships. This was known as?
The Boston Tea Party
How the French and Indian War started.
George Washington's men shot and killed French spies their on their way back from Fort Duquesne
This is the rallying cry that expressed the colonists' refusal to pay taxes without a voice in government
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
England’s law making body, similar to the United States Congress.
What is Parliament?
This group, whose leaders included Samuel Adams, was responsible for organizing the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
This proposal by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade and military purposes, but was rejected.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
A reaction to the Tea Act of 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This famous orator and leader of the American Revolution is remembered for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.
Who is Patrick Henry?
These crucial communication networks were formed by colonists to share news and coordinate resistance.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This early Revolutionary War battle, though eventually won by the British, was very costly for them.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
1. The name of the cartoon telling colonies to unite against the French and Indians.
2. Did colonists unite?
1. Join or Die
2. No
The main punishment of the Coercive (or Intolerable) acts after the Boston Tea Party.
Port of Boston Closed
This person created propaganda when he illustrated the British soldiers firing at innocent peaceful colonists in Boston.
Who is Paul Revere?
These search warrants, issued by the British government, allowed officials to search houses and ships for smuggled goods anywhere, anytime.
What are Writs of Assistance?
(1) Writer of the Declaration of Independence, which was (2) signed by this group.
1. Benjamin Franklin
2. Second Continental Congress