Background to the Colonies
The French and Indian War
Road to Revolution
Road to Revolution Cont.
Road to Rev. Cont.
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This European country established colonies with fur-traders and priests who wanted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. This European's colony was located in Canada.
France
100
These two European countries fought against one another in the French and Indian War.
France and Britain
100
What was the MAJOR effect of the French and Indian War?
Britain had a large debt that they needed to pay back so they taxed the colonies
100
These acts put a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
The Townshend Acts
100
What was the part of the Intolerable Acts that closed down the Boston Harbor?
The Boston Port Act
200
This European country established colonies in Latin America and South America. The people who established this colony were searching for gold and were priests who were trying to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism.
Spain
200
This is the side that the Ohio River Indians fought on.
The French
200
The British passed this act, which required the colonists to buy paper with special stamps on them and pay special "stamp duties" on dice and cards.
The Stamp Act
200
March 5, 1770. This was a fist-fight at the Customs House in Boston that turned into an armed fight. Crispus Attucks died at this fight. He was the first African American to die in the fight for freedom from Britain.
The Boston Massacre
200
What was the name of the Intolerable Act that allowed the British soldiers to knock on the door and demand to stay at the colonists' house?
The Quartering Act
300
This term means an area of land that is established by a parent country and settled by people from that country.
Colony
300
This is the side that the Iroquois fought on.
The British
300
The male colonists formed this resistance group to fight against the unfair policies of the British
The Sons of Liberty
300
This was the act that reduced the tax on tea in order to reduce colonial smuggling, increase British tax revenue, and save the British East India Company from going out of business.
The Tea Act
300
What was another name for the Intolerable Acts?
The Coercive Acts
400
This was the policy in which the British decided to relax the enforcement of British policies in the colonies as long as the colonies remained economically loyal to the parent country.
Salutary neglect
400
This person led the British forces in the fight against the French in the colonies.
George Washington
400
The female colonists formed this resistance group to fight back against the unfair British policies. This group of female colonists often held spinning bees so they could make their own clothes instead of having to buy the clothes from Britain.
Daughters of Liberty
400
What was the event called in which the colonists dressed up like Native Americans and dumped 18,000 pounds of British tea into the harbor to protest the Tea Act.
The Boston Tea Party
400
What were the groups of colonists who communicated with each other about the bad policies that the British passed?
Committees of Correspondence
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This European country established 13 permanent colonies along the East Coast in North America.
Britain
500
What country won the French and Indian War?
Britain
500
This term means a group refusal to buy or use goods
Boycott
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What was the name of the Acts that Britain passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Acts
500
This was the meeting at which settlers from the various colonies met to discuss the British policies. At this meeting, the colonists wrote down the rights that they demanded, decided that they would fight back if the British attacked, and decided to meet again the next year if the British had not met the colonists' demands.
The First Continental Congress
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