The French and Indian War
These two countries fought the French and Indian War over land in North America.
What are Great Britain and France?
To refuse to buy something as a protest is to do this.
What is boycott?
British soldiers killed this many colonists in the Boston Massacre.
What is five?
Colonists who stayed loyal to Britain were called this.
Who are the Loyalists?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, announced the colonies were a new nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
He led the Virginia militia in 1754 and had to surrender at Fort Necessity. He later became a president.
Who is George Washington?
The Stamp Act was a tax on this kind of material, which includes newspapers.
What is paper?
In 1773 colonists dumped 342 chests of this into Boston Harbor.
What is tea?
Colonists who wanted to be free from Britain were called this.
Who are the Patriots?
The Second Continental Congress chose him to lead the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Many Native Americans sided with the French because the French wanted this to trade, not land.
What is fur (furs)?
This 1763 law said colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This word means information meant to change people’s opinions, like Paul Revere’s picture of the massacre.
What is propaganda?
On April 18, 1775, he rode out to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
He wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1763 agreement ended the war and gave Canada to Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This group, led by Samuel Adams, protested the Stamp Act in the streets of Boston.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
In 1774 these laws punished Massachusetts by closing Boston Harbor. Colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
These two Massachusetts towns were where the first fighting of the Revolution happened.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine said the colonies should break away from Britain
What is Common Sense?
In 1759 the British captured this French city by climbing a cliff at night.
What is Quebec?
In 1767 these laws taxed glass, tea, and paper brought into the colonies.
A) Sugar Act B) Townshend Acts C) Stamp Act D) Proclamation
B) the Townshend Acts
He was the first colonist killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
In this battle near Boston, the British won but lost more than 1,000 soldiers.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Congress sent this “petition” to King George as a last request to avoid war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?