Acts/Laws/Proclamations
The Sugar Act was a tax on ____.
What is sugar?
Area restricted after the passing of the Proclamation of 1763.
What is the area W of the Appalachian Mountains, Ohio River Valley?
Issued following the war, was meant to prevent another war over land from occurring.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Committees that wrote to one another to describe their anger toward British rule.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
The term used to describe British soldiers, often it was meant to be cruel or to make fun of them.
What are "redcoats" or "lobsterbacks?"
The Proclamation of 1763 was supposed to prevent _____, but it just made the colonists angry.
What is war?
This event occurred when the colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Following the French and Indian war, the British started to pay more attention to colonists. The period of _____, or letting the colonists manage themselves, was officially over.
What is salutary neglect?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The term for a person who is loyal to Britain, the term for a person who supports the Revolution.
Who is a Loyalist, who is a Patriot?
Under the Navigation Acts, the colonies could only trade with ___.
What is Great Britain?
King who passed all of the acts/laws.
Who is King George III?
This line prevented the colonists from settling past it.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Committees that wrote to one another to describe their anger toward British rule.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
The name for the British government (not the king or queen).
What is Parliament?
Meant to punish the colonists following the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
The name of the leader of the Continental Army, general who later went on to become President.
Who is George Washington?
The Native Americans fought on this side(s) of the war.
What are the French and British sides?
This was a phrase used by Benjamin Franklin to convince the separate colonies to join the war effort. IT meant that alone the colonies were less powerful than if they were to band together and fight.
What is "Join or Die!"
This piece of legislation reinforced the Navigation Acts.
What are the Writs of Assistance?
What is the Stamp Act?
The name of the event in which colonists threw snowballs at the British to provoke them and caused British soldiers to open fire. It was not as tragic as its name suggests--only 5 people died.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The main countries fighting against each other in the French and Indian War.
Who are the British and the French?
This was the colonists "rallying cry"--it was the line used by the Patriots to remind colonists that they deserved to have a say in the British government.
What is "No taxation without representation!"
The document used to officially declare the colonies independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?