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Regions & Geography
French and Indian War
Native Americans
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100
This Act from 1764 lowered the tax on imported molasses and other goods from the West Indies (Caribbean).
What is the Sugar Act
100
These colonies are in the Northeast, comprised of small farms, ship building, trade and manufacturing.
What is the New England Colonies
100
Name the five groups of people who fought in the French and Indian War.
What is the French, British, Native Americans, French Colonists and American Colonists.
100
Native Americans typically favored these Europeans.
What is the French
100
This political body was based in Britain worked alongside the crown. (Bonus: What are the two houses of the British Parliament?) 100 points for each house.
What is Parliament (Bonus: House of Lords and Commons, 300 points possible.)
200
This 1765 law placed a tax on all printed materials, including newspapers, wills, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act
200
These colonies are central, excellent farming conditions and the economy revolved around cash crops, lumbering, mining, manufacturing and skilled labor.
What is the Middle Colonies
200
Another name for this conflict.
What is the Seven Years War
200
This powerful group of tribes formed an alliance and became the crucial in giving the British the advantage in controlling North America.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy
200
This political body was made up of 55 delegates from every colony except Georgia and was intended to represent the colonies.
What is the Continental Congress
300
This 1767 set of laws designed to compensate for colonists avoiding domestic taxes. New taxes on imported goods such as glass, tea and paper.
What is the Townshend Acts
300
These lower colonies were entirely focused on agriculture, trade and slavery.
What is the Southern Colonies
300
This British Colonist would have a somewhat successful military career and would later be seen as a hero who struck the first blow against the French.
Who is George Washington
300
This Mohawk chief was crucial in establishing a British alliance.
Who is Chief Joseph Brant
300
These colonies were ruled directly by the British and its governors were appointed by the king.
What is the Royal Colonies.
400
This 1773 law allowed the British East India Company to avoid financial ruin. It created a virtual monopoly on tea.
What is the Tea Act
400
This the major geographical region that served as both a physical and political border for the British colonies.
What is the Appalachian Mountains
400
France was forced to give up their territories to the British. (Bonus: What was the major port city the British acquired and what Spanish territory did the British receive?) 400 points possible.
What is Canada and the land east of the Mississippi River. (Bonus: New Orleans and Florida)
400
This "war chief" led Great Lakes Tribes to fight against British rule and was eventually defeated and forced to sign a treaty in 1765.
Who is Pontiac
400
What 5 groups of people in 13 colonies were NOT allowed to vote?
What is women, indentured servants, renters or non-landowners, African Americans and most foreigners.
500
These 1774 laws were created to counter resistance to British Law in Massachusetts. Closed the Boston Harbor, forced colonists to feed and shelter British soldiers, disregarded the rights of citizens and land claims west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Bonus: What the British name for these acts? (2 acts, 500 points)
What is the Intolerable Acts; Bonus: The Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act.
500
This geographical region was seen as the "frontier or wilderness" and was located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
What is the Ohio River Valley or Ohio Territory.
500
This treaty ended the French and Indian War (must include the year).
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763.
500
This successful military tactic was used by Native Americans against colonial and European forces.
What is guerrilla warfare
500
Name a British politician that advocated for a better relations with the American colonists and increased representation and economic freedoms. (Bonus: What was the political and cultural movement from this time period that inspired many politicians and individuals?) 100 points possible.
Who is William Pitt, Edmund Burke or William Wilberforce Bonus: The Enlightenment