A person who is viewed as property and forced to obey their owner
What is a slave?
100
This leader of the Virginia militia made the dangerous journey into the Ohio River Valley in effort to warn the French to leave.
Who is George Washington?
100
This Parliamentary Act placed a tax on all paper products including: wills, licenses & playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
These colonists represented 10-15% of the population and favored British rule
Who are the Loyalists?
200
A company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry.
What is a monopoly?
200
The brutal voyage that carried slaves across the Atlantic from West Africa to slavery in the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
As colonists moved west of the Appalachian Mountains, this Native American leader organized an alliance to fight British settlement.
Who is Pontiac?
200
This Parliamentary Act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
Sam Adams, John Hancock & the Sons of Liberty are all examples of this group, who were willing to fight for independence.
What are Patriots?
300
To refuse to buy or use certain goods or services.
What is a boycott?
300
The belief that one race is superior or inferior another.
What is racism?
300
An area of rich farmland claimed by both the French & the British. The conflict over this territory led to the French & Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
300
These Parliamentary Acts were passed in an effort to punish the citizens of Boston & Massachusetts for their role in the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
This radical Patriot group was responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
400
The act of canceling
What is to repeal?
400
Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.
What are slave codes?
400
This document forced the French out of North America and officially ended the French & Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The Tea Acts placed a monopoly on all tea imported to the colonies, allowing this company to gain total control over the tea market.
What is the East Indian Company?
400
During and after the American Revolution, about 100,000 Loyalists left the country forever. Many settled in this country.
What is Canada?
500
The cruel and oppressive rule over a people or country.
What is tyranny?
500
A three-way trade between the colonies, Europe and Africa in which slaves were obtained from Africa and brought to the colonies.
What is the Triangular Trade?
500
This British law banned future settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and forced those who had already settled the Ohio River Valley to abandon their homes.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
These documents allowed British officials to search colonial homes for smuggled goods.