Colonial Government
This person ruled for life and was born into power.
Who is the King (or Queen)?
This war was fought between the British and the French (and their Indigenous allies) to control the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
Money people pay to the government to help pay for schools, roads, and firefighters.
What is a tax?
Even though many people could attend and speak at Town Meetings, only this group was allowed to vote.
Who are white male property owners?
This group was made up of white male landowners in Britain and helped limit the king’s power.
What is Parliament?
After the war, this country gained control of most of the land France had claimed in North America.
What is Great Britain?
This law placed a tax on most paper goods including newspapers, playing cards and contracts.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1215 document said the king could not tax people without listening to them first.
What is the Magna Carta?
This official carried out the king and Parliament’s orders in each colony.
Who is the Colonial Governor?
After the war, the French lost all of its land in North America to the British. Besides Great Britain, what other European country still had claims to land in North America?
What is Spain?
The British government believed taxes were needed for this reason after the war.
What is to pay for war debts and protect the colonies?
Only about this percentage of Britain’s population could vote for Parliament.
What is about 3%?
This group of colonists voted on local taxes and laws in the colonies.
What is the Colonial Assembly?
This group was not invited to the peace talks, even though their land was decided by the treaty and they fought in the war.
Who are the Indigenous nations?
Colonists believed taxes were unfair because they did not have this in Parliament.
What is representation or a vote or a say?
This treaty officially ended the French and Indian War and transferred land from France to Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
This type of meeting in New England let people debate local issues like fences and town rules.
What is a Town Meeting?
This 1763 decision drew a line on the map and told British colonists they could not settle west of it.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This phrase means people should not be taxed unless they have representatives who speak for them.
What is “taxation without representation”?
This Indigenous group allied with the French and worried they would have to face the British alone if France lost.
Who are the Wyandot?