Road to Revolution
A protest on tax where colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party
Made colonist purchase an official stamp when buying paper items
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia
What are The Southern Colonies?
A war between Great Britain, Asia, and France that included the French and Indian War in North America
What is The Seven Years War?
A group of people who moved away from England to have their own beliefs
What are Pilgrims?
Colonist confronted a group of British red coats and a fight broke out, killing 5 colonists
What is the Boston Massacre?
The first tax on the colonists to pay for the French and Indian War
What is the The Sugar Act of 1764?
The founder of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
The French colonies and Great Britian both wanted to control the fur trade with Native American tribes and this led to conflict
What is the French and Indian war?
This type of government was established by pilgrims in the Mayflower Compact
What is a Representative Government?
The document that prohibited colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Tax on Tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper
What are The Townshend Acts?
The Primary source of income for the southern colonies
what is Plantation farming?
The outcome of the French and Indian War, where the French lost almost all their land
What is The Treaty of Paris?
The prettiest, smartest, most awesomest U.S. History teacher ever
Who is Ms. McLean?
The document that colonist wrote to King George, listing reasons why they wanted to break away from Great Britian
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What is the Intolerable Acts?
Created Connecticut because Massachusetts government had too much power
Who is Thomas Hooker?
The French expected the Native Americans to side with them because the French wanted to build a strong alliance with this Native American tribe
What are the Algonquin?
The 35th president of the United States of America
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This guy is considered to be the first death in the American Revolution when he was shot during the Boston Massacre
Who was Crispus Attucks?
This act forced colonist to house soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
When the Dutch governor surrendered and the English captured their territory, the king renamed this colony in honor of his brother
What is New York?
This land was disputed over during the French and Indian war
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This first document to establish self-government in the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?