French and Indian War
The French and Indian War lasted this long.
What is ten years?
This is what you call the law-making part of the British government.
What is parliament?
These are three of the items that were taxed with the Stamp Act.
What are playing cards, marriage certificates, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets?
The term "Lobsterbacks" refers to this.
Soldiers from Great Britain?
This word refers to when people protest by refusing to use/buy a good or service.
What is boycott?
This is what you call two or more countries that are fighting on the same team?
What are allies?
This is why Britain decided to keep troops in the colonies after the French and Indian War?
What is to protect the colonists from further conflict?
This is what the term "protest" means.
What is to publicly disagree?
This is the name of the building where the taxes are collected. It is where the crowd began to gather the night of the Boston Massacre.
What is the customs house?
This is what you call purchased goods that are brought to another country.
What is import?
This was the color of the British uniforms?
What is red?
The term "quarter" does not refer the US coin, but rather this.
What is a place to live, home, or shelter?
This was the job title of the people who collected the tax money.
What are tax collectors?
This word refers to the murder of several or many people who cannot defend themselves.
What is massacre?
This was what the colonists called the laws that were passed to punish them for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
When the British won the French and Indian War, they received most of Canada, as well as the land between the Mississippi River and this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is what you call the action of canceling or undoing a law.
What is repeal?
This man was a leader of protests and made sure that word of the massacre spread quickly.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This is the name that Parmilment used for the laws passed to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the coercive acts?
The Proclamation of 1763 did this.
What is settled the land dispute? Native Americans had the land to the west of the Appalachian Mountains and the colonists should stay to the East.
These are the four things the colonist had to provide for the soldiers as a result of the Quartering Act.
What is food, shelter, transportation, and fuel?
Taxation without representation means this.
What is having to pay taxes and follow rules that you didn't get to help make; having no say in the laws?
It was on this date that the Boston Massacre occurred.
What is March 5, 1770?
Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies went to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. This colony, however, was not there.
What is Georgia?