The French and Indian War
The Proclamation of 1763
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
Committees of Correspondence
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The French, British and Native Americans
Who participated in the French and Indian War?
100
An official statement or announcement made by a person in power.
What is a proclamation?
100
A British law passed in 1764 to raise money in the American Colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
Troops were stationed in the colonies to defend against Indian attacks and to keep the French from reclaiming their lost land.
Why were British troops stationed i the colonies?
100
Samuel Adams
Who founded the first Committee of Correspondence?
200
Fort Duquesne
What is the most famous French fort in the Ohio Valley in the 1750s?
200
King George III issued this in 1763 to calm the fears of the Native Americans.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
200
The Sugar Act.
What is the first direct tax that Parliament imposed on the American Colonies?
200
To help support and pay for the British troops they had stationed in the colonies.
Why did Parliament pass the Stamp Act in 1765?
200
To share information about each new issue faced in the developing crisis with England.
Why were these committees of correspondence formed?
300
The Ohio Valley
Where did the French and Indian war take place?
300
This proclamation forbid colonists from settling west of this line.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
300
New phrase heard throughout the colonies after the Sugar Act was passed.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
300
It showed that the tax had been paid on the paper item.
Why was the stamp placed on the document?
300
The first attempt of the American Colonies to maintain communication with one another.
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
400
Marched in straight lines with much noise and fanfare.
What is the British?
400
To reduce future Indian attacks.
What is the reason for the Proclamation?
400
Three pence.
What is the amount of tax the Sugar Act placed on sugar?
400
All important documents, like newspapers, playing cards, pamphlets and court documents.
Which important documents needed a stamp?
400
They sent out news about what the British were doing in their colonies and what they were doing to resist the British.
What news did the Committees of Correspondence share?
500
This was signed by the French in 1763. In it the French surrendered all land claims in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
Many of the colonists had already moved past the Proclamation Line and were not willing to give up their land.
What is the reason the Proclamation failed?
500
England's debt had grown after the war fought to protect colonial borders.
What is the reason the colonies were taxed?
500
Colonists didn't want British soldiers stations in their cities and were outraged that they were being taxed without representation in Parliament.
Why did the Stamp Act anger the Colonists?
500
Eventually, each of the thirteen colonies.
Who had a Committee of Correspondence?
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