Road to Revolution #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution. He issued this, that angered colonists.
KING GEORGE III. What is The Proclamation of 1763
Name of the British government
Parliament
Area of land that the French & Indian War was fought over:
Ohio River Valley
This act repealed stamp tax due to success of Stamp Act Congress and Boycotts , but still had right to TAX colonies
Declaratory Act
In the 1760s – customs officials were sometimes targeted if they were suspected of informing on smugglers to the British.
They used this tactic to humiliate the victims but Boston leaders will eventually call for an end to practice
Tar and Feathering
This event was when the ship ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island and the colonists quickly seized control of the ship and set fire to the cargo on board
The Gaspee Affair (1772)
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
Someone that wanted to be free from British rule.
Patriot
This was signed to end the French & Indian War:
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Secret meeting of the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia to discuss how to respond to British taxes and especially the intolerable Acts
1st Continental Congress
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
BOSTON MASSACRE
This is an unofficial army of citizens that come together to fight:
Militia
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
Tea Act
This country built Fort Duquesne at the point where the Ohio River forms (modern day Pittsburgh).
France
The purpose was to work together to warn neighboring colonies about incidents occurring in New England with the British
Committees of Correspondence
France loses claims to Ohio River Valley to this Country
Great Britain
The British were taxing the colonies to pay debts from which war?
French & Indian War
It was someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to England.
Loyalist
This man built fort Necessity during the French & Indian War. He was also Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
George Washington
A kind of crop that can make lots of money when it is sold
Cash Crop
This act in (1764) placed duties on foreign sugar, stop smuggling
SUGAR ACT
This act in (1765) provided food and shelter to soldiers
Quartering Act
1.Closed the port of Boston
2.Gov’t Act –decreased power of Mass. legislature
3.New Quartering Act
4.Administration of Justice Act – accused royal officials were to be tried in a court in EnglandLord North
Intolerable Acts
Extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio River
Official religion was Roman Catholicism
Set up government without a representative assembly
Upset Americans because it was a denial of expectations of westward expansion and it set up an autocratic government
Quebec Act
This act stated that ships coming from the colonies had to go through England first, and that any ship used had to be an English ship.
Navigation Laws/Acts
Settlers from both nations had designs on settling the rich lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, often called the Ohio River Valley.
Great Britain and France
banned all settlement west of the Appalachians.
Proclamation of 1763
This company held a monopoly on British tea imports.
British East India Company
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called:
TAXATION WITH
OUT REPRESENTATION
The Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts for the _______________.
Boston Tea Party