Mercantilism
Enlightenment
French and Indian War
Taxes
Key Terms
100
These were the four main European countries that used mercantilism to build wealth and power.
What are Spain, France, Britain, and Portugal?
100
This is where the Enlightenment began.
Where is Europe?
100
These are the two groups that fought in the war.
Who are the French and the British?
100
This act put a tax on paper goods and used the image below to show that the tax had been paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This word is another way to say “law.”
What is an act?
200
This is what it’s called when a mother country forces its colonies to only buy manufactured goods from them.
What is a monopoly?
200
Enlightenment thinkers started to challenge these two powerful authorities.
What are the Church and the Monarchy?
200
This is the area shown in the image below that the French and Indian War was fought over.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
200
This act was passed by Britain as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
200
A legal member of a society who can take part in government is called a…
What is a citizen?
300
In mercantilism, mother countries wanted to show power by earning money through these kinds of goods.
What are manufactured goods?
300
The government and the people should agree to work together. This idea is called a…
What is a Social Contract?
300
Both the French and British asked this group to help them fight in the war.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
This famous phrase showed that the colonists believed the taxes were unfair.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
300
This term means having the ability to make your own decisions or control your own life.
What is agency?
400
Colonists started doing this to sneak cheaper goods into the colonies instead of buying from their mother country.
What is smuggling?
400
All people are born with rights that can’t be taken away. These are called...
What are Natural Rights?
400
Britain won the war, but it led to this negative consequence for the colonists.
What is being taxed to help Britain pay for the war?
400
This term means letting soldiers live in your home.
What is Quartering?
400
When people refuse to buy certain goods as a form of protest, it’s called a…
What is boycotting?
500
Colonies couldn’t make their own goods because the mother countries didn’t allow them to have these.
What are factories?
500
The Enlightenment will eventually inspire this group of people to separate from Britain.
What are the American Colonies?
500
Battles of the war were also fought in this country.
What is Canada?
500
This company was being helped by the Tea Act, which gave it a monopoly on tea sales.
What is the British East India Company?
500
The term that means to forcibly persuade people to do something.
What is coercive?