Category 1
"What is a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies, often assisting the regular army during colonial conflicts?"
Militia
Q: "What is a formal agreement or treaty between two or more parties, especially nations, to cooperate for specific purposes, often seen between the French and Native Americans?"
Alliance
Q: "What is the term for money collected by a government, which Britain sought to increase through taxing the American colonies after the French and Indian War?"
Revenue
Q: "What was the legal document that allowed British officials to search colonial homes and businesses for smuggled goods without specific warrants?"
Writ of Assistance
Q: "What was the powerful alliance of six Native American tribes in the Northeast, which played a key role in negotiations and alliances during the French and Indian War?"
Iroquois Confederacy
Q: "What was the colonial protest strategy involving refusal to purchase British goods, used to oppose taxes imposed by the British?"
Boycott
Q: "What is the act of officially canceling a law, as the British did with some taxes after colonial protests?"
Repeal
Q: "What is information, often biased or misleading, spread to promote a political cause, like Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre?"
Propaganda
Q: "What was the network of communication among American colonies to coordinate plans and share information on resisting British policies?"
Committee of Correspondence
Q: "What were crude representations of unpopular British officials, sometimes burned by colonists as a form of protest?"
Effigies
Q: "What was the group of colonial women who supported the boycott of British goods and helped manufacture homemade goods?"
Daughters of Liberty
Q: "What is the notion of sacrificing personal interests for the public good, an ideal promoted by American Patriots?"
Civic Virtue
Q: "What term describes a widespread outbreak of disease, such as smallpox, which affected populations during the 18th century?"
Epidemic
Q: "What is a good or product sent from one country to another for sale, which colonial America did with goods like tobacco?"
Export
Q: "What is the economic policy of controlling trade to benefit the mother country, which Britain used to manage colonial economies?"
Mercantilism
Q: "What is a good brought into one country from another for sale, such as tea imported from Britain?"
Import
Q: "What is a young person who learns a trade from a skilled employer, common in colonial America?"
Apprentice
Q: "What is an act of open resistance against authority, which describes the colonies’ increasing defiance against British rule?"
Rebellion
Q: "What is a formal statement of decision or expression of opinion, such as the colonial legislatures’ stand against British policies?"
Resolution
Q: "What is a political system in which citizens elect officials to make laws, a concept valued by American colonists and later challenged by British policies?"
Representative Government