Column 1
A person's ability to use logic.
Reason
Were allies with the English in the French and Indian War.
Iroquois
This man was an escaped slave who lived in Boston, MA. He worked as a whaler. He was killed during the Boston Massacre and became a martyr.
Crispus Attucks
This man defended British soldiers accused of murder in Boston, MA.
John Adams
This act taxes all paper products.
The Stamp Act
A system of thinking that asks "what" we do, "why" we do it, and "how" we do it.
Philosophy
When a person or group decides NOT to buy, shop, or visit a location because of their actions or behavior.
Boycott
This is the idea that a king or queen was chosen by God to rule.
Divine Right
List 3 Natural Rights of man.
Life, Liberty, Property
This act required that colonists housed soldiers and fed them.
Quartering Act
The agreement that a ruler must have with the
people he/she rules.
Consent
When a group organizes and demonstrates because they disagree with certain behaviors or beliefs.
Protest
The British soldiers marched to Concord, MA in order to break into this?
A Weapons Depot
List the three branches of government.
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
Mary Wollstonecraft
This town had a weapons depot that the British
wanted to destroy.
Concord
A civilian-soldier who is ready to fight within a minute's notice.
Minuteman
This is the phrase given to the first offensive action taken by colonists against British soldiers.
"The shot heard 'round the world"
This act taxes coffee, wine, and molasses...all the best stuff.
The Sugar Act
Voltaire
Fought alongside the French in the Seven Years War.
Algonquin
How did the French and Indian War influence the lives of colonists in North America?
Though the British won the war, they went into considerable debt to their own bankers and the Dutch (of Netherlands). In order to recover from debt, the British taxed the colonists with harsh taxes. The colonists became disgruntled and began to defy the British. War erupted between the colonists and the British. The French and Indian War led to the American Revolution, and the birth of the United States of America.
Where did the first offensive action taken by colonists against British soldiers take place?
Concord
This group gathered in protest of the act that taxes paper products.
The Stamp Act Congress
It was his idea to divide government into three branches
Montesquieu
He wrote about the natural rights of human beings.
John Locke
He was the British commander at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
James Wolfe
He was the French commander at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Montcalm
This fertile land was fought over by the British and the French.
The Ohio River Valley
This was the capital of French settlements in North America.
Quebec City
How did Britain get Florida after the F.I. war?
Spain gave it to them
This word means to violate someone's rights.
Infringe