1750s and 1760s
Important Events
Continental Congress
People
Vocabulary
100
A major cause of the French and Indian War
What is France and Britain claimed the same lands in North America?
100
Paul Revere drew an illustration of this conflict between British troops and Boston civilians
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence on this day
What is July 4, 1776?
100
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
100
Working against one's government
What is treason?
200
What the British government did to help pay the cost of the French and Indian War
What is passed new tax laws for the colonies?
200
What Thomas Pain called for in his pamphlet Common Sense
What is independence from Britain?
200
Why the First Continental Congress met
What is to (1) decide how to respond to British policies; (2) send a petition to the king, stating the colonists' rights; (3) agree to boycott (stop trade) with Britain; (4) ask the colonies to form militias?
200
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A voice in one's government
What is representation?
300
This law stated that only Native Americans could live on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
Way Committees of Correspondence helped fight British rule
What is spread information quickly?
300
Whom did the Second Continental Congress appoint as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
300
Organizer of the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston, he was thought by many to have planned the Boston Tea Party
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
To refuse to buy goods
What is boycott?
400
How colonists reacted to the Proclamation of 1763
What is they got angry, ignored it, and continued to settle there?
400
Why the battles of Lexington and Concord were important
What is they marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War?
400
Person who called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
400
He called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
400
Freedom to govern oneselves
What is independence?
500
Effect of the French and Indian War
What is Britain gained land and France lost land?
500
In the wake of this conflict, the British realized that fighting the colonists would not be that easy
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
500
Petition sent to King George and the Parliament asking for peace
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
He was head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation
Who is John Dickinson?
500
Work against the British laws and taxes
What is protest?
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