This was the nickname given to Metacomet by the English settlers.
What is King Philip?
100
This is the name of the area between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains.
What is backcountry?
100
This law set duties on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
These two men were among the first colonists who openly disagreed with the taxes and helped coin the phrase “No Taxation without Representation."
Who are Jame Otis and Samuel Adams?
100
This is the name of the shootings that occurred on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers killed several colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Prior to the French and Indian War, the French and the British were fighting to gain control over this region.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
200
These people were the first Europeans to settle the backcountry and the frontier.
What are pioneers?
200
This law required that colonists to pay for an official seal whenever they buy paper items.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This secret society sometimes used violence to threaten tax collectors.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200
This term means to stop buying a certain good.
What is boycott?
300
This man was sent to attack the French Fort Duquesne, but was ambushed before he got there.
Who is Edward Braddock?
300
Claiming that the British had not conquered the American Indians, this man led a rebellion in 1763 to drive the English off of his land.
Who is Pontiac?
300
These acts placed duties on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What is the Townshend Acts?
300
This man presented a series of resolutions to the House of Burgesses in Virginia convincing them to support some of his ideas.
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
To help pay Britain's national debt from the French and Indian War, this prime minister asked Parliament to tax the colonies.
Who is George Granville?
400
The turning point of the French and Indian War was when Englishman James Wolfe captured this capital city.
What is Quebec?
400
This law banned the British from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
This law kept the tax on tea and forced the colonies to import their tea only from Britain.
What is the Tea Act?
400
These groups contacted other towns and colonies to share ideas and information about the new taxes and ways to challenge them.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
400
This term means to revoke a law.
What is repeal?
500
This treaty officially ended the French and Indian War, giving Britain Canada and all land east of the Mississippi and Spain all land west of the Mississippi.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
This man issued the Proclamation of 1763.
Who is King George III?
500
These acts closed Boston Harbor and forced the colonists to house and supply British soldiers.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
This was the name of the event in which 16 colonists dressed up as American Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
This is the term for civilians serving as soldiers.