Battles/Wars
The final, decisive battle of the French & Indian War
What is the Battle of Quebec?
Placed duties (taxes) on items such as sugar, molassas, coffee, silks, and indigo.
What is the Sugar Act (1764)?
5 colonists died in this incident with the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This plan was the first to attempt to unite the American colonies.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Lead the colonists in the first battles of the F&I War.
Who is George Washington?
Unfinished British fort that the French took over in the first fighting of the F&I War
What is Fort Duquesne?
Forced colonists to house British troops in empty buildings and feed them.
What is the Quartering Act (1765)?
Colonists threw tea off the Dartmouth in this event.
Defended the British in the trial after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
Inventor and patriot who ran a printing press.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Called the Seven Years' War in Europe.
What is the French and Indian War?
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
The port of Boston was closed with this act.
What is the Boston Port Act (1774)
Warned the colonists that the British were coming to Lexington.
Who is Paul Revere?
Turned the tide of the F&I War in the British's favor with his 3-prong strategy.
Who is William Pitt?
First battles of the American War for Independence.
What are the battles of Lexington and Concord?
Placed new taxes on glass, paper, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Met to petition the king to repeal the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
Said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
Treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Gave the British East India Company a virtual monopoly on tea in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act of 1773.
Issued a colonial statement of protest called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Vocal patriot who started the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samual Adams?