Lessons 11 & 12
What is the term for two or more groups who agree to help each other?
Allies
What is the term for money owed?
Debt
What term means total control over trade of a good or service?
Hint - also a popular board game!
Monopoly
What is the term for adding protection to a place to defend it?
Fortify
What is the term for groups who compete for the same thing?
Rivals
What is the term for refusing to use a product or service?
Boycott
Lucky Pick!
What day of the week is the best?
Monday..... of course
Also, Friday, Saturday, or any day ending in "y"
What is the term for things that represent or stand for something?
Symbols
Name the two main countries involved in the French and Indian War.
France and England
What do we call colonists who wanted England to keep control of the colonies?
Loyalists
What term means to use private property to feed and house British soldiers?
Quarter
Who was a Governor of Virginia, a Vice President, the third President of the US, and also the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
List one reason that the Indigenous people chose a specific side to fight with during the French and Indian War.
They wanted to keep their trade agreements.
They wanted to hurt their rival tribes.
They were forced into a side.
They wanted England to gain control of the Ohio basin.
What do we call colonists who wanted to gain freedom from England?
Patriots
What is the phrase for the things people are allowed to do or have and cannot be taken away?
Inalienable rights
Although the story is apocryphal, who is credited with designing the original US flag?
Betsy Ross
What is the name of the agreement that officially ended the French and Indian War?
The Treaty of Paris (1763)
Why did John Adams (a Patriot and future president) choose to defend the British soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre?
Because he strongly believed that ALL people deserve to be defended in court and that the soldiers, in part, were acting in self-defense.
Which part of the Declaration of Independence states that the colonies have tried to reach an agreement with Britain, but that Britain has refused?
Resolution of Independence
List a reason why the Americans won the battle at Yorktown.
The British army was run down and exhausted.
The British army was surprised by the alliance between America and France.