Colonial Life
This New England industry involved building ships for trade and fishing.
What is shipbuilding?
This term describes Britain’s loose enforcement of colonial laws as long as the colonies stayed profitable.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This war was fought between Britain and France from 1754–1763 over North American territory
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1764 tax targeted molasses and sugar imports.
What is the Sugar Act?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers firing on a crowd in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These were the three main colonial regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
One reason Britain allowed Salutary Neglect was because they were often involved in these overseas conflicts.
What are European wars?
Britain gained this territory after winning the war.
What is Canada and land east of the Mississippi?
This 1765 law required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This group formed the largest portion of forced labor in the Southern Colonies by the mid-1700s
Who were enslaved Africans?
These trade laws were lightly enforced during Salutary Neglect.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1763 law limited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The 1765 tax that required an official seal on printed documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This phrase captured colonial opposition to being taxed without representation in Parliament
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Name one major city that grew rapidly in the 1700s due to trade. (10 bonus points for every additional city named)
What is Boston, New York, or Philadelphia?
Colonists gained this kind of governing experience during Salutary Neglect.
What is self-government?
The war caused Britain to double this financial problem.
What is the national debt?
These 1767 taxes were placed on imports like glass, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Colonial leaders formed this inter-colonial political body in 1774 to respond to British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Colonists modeled their governments after this country’s political traditions.
What is England?
Name one way Salutary Neglect helped set the stage for revolution.
What is colonists becoming politically/economically independent?
Britain’s victory ended this European nation’s major influence in North America.
What is France?
These 1774 laws punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Fighting in the American Revolution began in these two Massachusetts towns in April 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?