Colonization
The year Jamestown was founded
What is 1607?
The tax on sugar and molasses
What was the Sugar Act?
The law that said the British soldiers could live in colonial homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
Five colonists died after British soldiers shot into a crowd of angry protestors.
What is the Boston Massacre?
1970s
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The main reason the Pilgrims wanted to settle in Plymouth?
The tax on legal documents and papers.
What was the Stamp Act?
The name of the law that put a tax on American tea but excluded taxes from British tea, resulting in the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
The colonial response to the British tax on American tea.
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The main source of economy for the Southern colonies.
What was the selling of cash crops?
The tax on paint, lead, paper, glass, and tea.
The Townshend Acts
The name of the law that outlawed the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The "Shot Heard Around the World" happened here.
What are the Battles of Lexington & Concord?
1980s
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The sides that fought in the French and Indian War.
What are the British and the Colonists vs. the French and the Native Americans?
The phrase the Colonists created to protest the Stamp Act.
What is "no taxation without representation!"
The name of the laws passed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party? (nickname is OK)
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine arguing the need for American independence.
What is Common Sense?
1990s
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The main source of income for the Middle colonies
What was grain farming?
The Townshend Acts were repealed except for this one item.
What is tea?
The worst part of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the closing of Boston Harbor?
The first time the colonies sent delegates to discuss how to respond to the new laws and taxes.
What is the First Continental Congress?
2000s
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