The French & Indian War
The name of the BIGGER war that the French & Indian War was a part of.
What is the 7 Years' War?
Starting in 1674, the British began imposing a series of acts designed to get more ______ out of the colonies.
What are taxes? (or money)
The incident where a bunch of colonists dressed up like Native Americans and dumped over $3 million in tea into Boston Harbor.
(3 words)
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Nickname the colonists coined to make fun of the British soldiers.
What are Lobsterbacks?
The name for the group of men, including Samuel Adams & Paul Revere, who organized to fight British "oppression". (3 words)
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The names of the 3 groups who fought in the French and Indian War.
What are the French, the British, and the Indians?
(Colonists were British.)
The King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George the 3rd?
Snowball fight turned bloody.
(2 words)
What is the Boston Massacre?
In response to increased taxes, Americans coined this slogan. "No taxation without ___________."
What is representation?
The group that met in Philadelphia with representatives from the colonies. (2 words)
What is the Continental Congress?
The name of the Valley both the British and the French wanted to claim.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
British laws were created by the Parliament, a governing body made up of these two houses:
What are the House of Lords and the House of Commons?
First battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Name of Paul Revere's famous trip to warn the colonists of New Hampshire.
What is "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"?
(or "Paul Revere's Midnight Ride")
The name of the army George Washington was general of. (2 words)
What is the Continental Army?
Three main results of the French and Indian War that would impact the colonies.
What are 1) Territorial Changes, 2) Military Training, and 3) Post-War Taxes?
A series of acts Britain passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, designed to "show the colonists who was boss".
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Name of the Act that stated colonists had to house British Soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The first shot fired at Lexington & Concord became known as the ___________________.
What is the "Shot heard 'round the world"?
The name of the Virginia body of government that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Patrick Henry were all a part of. (3 words)
What is the House of Burgesses?
Name of the Viriginia governor who sent young George Washington to deliver a message to the French.
(Robert __________)
Who is Robert Dinwiddie?
4 different early acts Parliament passed to levy taxes on the colonies.
What were the sugar act, the stamp act, the currency act, and the Townshend acts.
Colonists who were loyal to Britain and did NOT want to rebel.
What were Tories? (or "a Tory")
When the British navy converged on New York harbor, one colonial exclaimed (5 words)
What is "All of London is afloat"?
The date the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. (Month, day, year.)
What is July 4, 1776?