French Indian War
What two countries were involved in the War?
This was the colonist response to the Tea Act.
The Boston Tea Party
The stamp act was a tax on what?
Newspapers and legal documents
These people supported breaking away from the British.
Patriots
These Colonies relied on slaves and indentured servants to help their agriculture based society.
Southern Colonies
These were stations that armies set up in order to defend key areas of land
Forts
This is when you protest by not buying things from a certain company or person (hurting their pockets)
A boycott
What act placed a tax on Molasses?
The sugar act
These people supported the British and wanted the colonies to remain a part of the British empire.
Loyalist
These colonies often times are referred to as the breadbasket colonies because they rely on mercantilism and trading.
The middle colonies
What major battle was the turning point of the War?
The battle of Quebec
The sons of liberty were led by this man
Samuel Adams
The quartering act
This man was a general from Virginia in the French-Indian war, and later led the Patriots against the British.
George Washington
These colonies relied on trading with natives and fishing in their super religious society.
The New England Colonies
What land did the Spanish Gain from the treaty of Paris 1763?
All land West of the Mississippi River
The Daughters of liberty made homemade clothing in order to protest these actS.
These Acts placed a tax on almost ALL imported goods, and led to the Daughters of Liberty making goods in the colonies to boycott them.
The Townshend Acts.
This man was the first governor of Virginia, and helped organize Jamestown into the first successful settlement.
John Smith
People of this religious denomination flocked to Maryland because of their religious tolerance.
Catholics
After the War The King banned Colonist from moving to the Ohio River Valley with this.
This law made it illegal for colonist to move west of the Appalachian mountains
The proclamation of 1763
This man helped form the sons of liberty and later became famous for the quote "the redcoats are coming, the redcoats are coming"
Paul Revere
This was the only colony that did not make it to the first continental congress, their representatives got lost on the way there.
Georgia