French & Indian War
This Ohio Valley region was the center of conflict between the French and British.
Answer: What is the Ohio River Valley?
This line prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Answer: What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This act placed a tax on all printed materials in the colonies.
Answer: What is the Stamp Act?
This act taxed glass, paint, and lead.
Answer: What is the Townshend Act?
Colonists often repeated this phrase to argue against taxation.
Answer: What is “No taxation without representation”?
The French gained Native American support because the British failed to adjust this.
Answer: What are their fighting styles?
This Native rebellion pushed Britain to change its “our way or the highway” policy.
Answer: What is Pontiac’s Rebellion?
This act taxed molasses and punished smugglers.
Answer: What is the Sugar Act?
This 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of protestors.
Answer: What is the Boston Massacre?
This act, passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, claimed Britain could tax the colonies.
Answer: What is the Declaratory Act?
This British leader expanded the war effort with more taxes, troops, and supplies.
Answer: Who is William Pitt?
Britain began raising these in the colonies to help pay for war debt.
Answer: What are taxes?
This group petitioned the King peacefully to repeal the Stamp Act.
Answer: What is the Stamp Act Congress?
Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts to prevent more of this.
Answer: What is violence?
Colonists responded to new taxes by forming these local groups.
Answer: What are boycotts/committees?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Paris?
Colonists were forced to house and pay for British soldiers under this act.
What is the Quartering Act?
This radical group used protests, boycotts, and even tar-and-feathering to fight the Stamp Act.
Answer: Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Colonists disguised as Native Americans and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in this protest.
Answer: What is the Boston Tea Party?
Colonists compared unfair British policies to this modern-day situation (like getting pulled over for speeding just over the limit).
Answer: What is the “Speed Limit analogy”?
Name what Britain, France, and Spain each gained or lost after the war.
What is Britain gained Canada, Florida, and land to the Mississippi; France lost all North American land; Spain gained New Orleans?
Colonists felt betrayed because the British no longer shared this after the French & Indian War.
Answer: What is a common enemy?
The Stamp Act was repealed mainly because colonists organized this economic protest.
Answer: What is a boycott?
The Tea Act forced colonists to only buy tea from this company.
Answer: What is the British East India Company?
Many colonists were angered because the taxes were passed without this form of government voice.
Answer: What is representation in Parliament?