Easy Ones
The Declaration of Independence was signed on ________________
July 4, 1776
The French knew that they needed the American Indians, so they treated them with _____and _______.
respect and generosity
The Seven Year’s War was called the _________________by the colonists
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war ended in 1763 with the
Treaty of Paris
The ________________River became the boundary between British and Spanish claims in North America.
Mississippi
___________ was a common threat and punishment to British tax collectors in which hot tar was applied to the skin and then they were covered in feathers.
Tar and Feather
After the French and Indian War, the British had a large war debt, plus the expensive job of guarding the vast territories and they thought the _________ should help pay these costs.
colonists
With British encouragement, colonial delegates met in 1754 to review the ____________ Plan of Union
Albany
The Albany Plan of Union called for the colonies to unite under British rule and cooperate with one another in times of __________and created an American continental assembly that would include delegates from each colony.
war
After the Albany Plan of Union was rejected, the British acted on their own and started to impose new _____ and regulation on colonial trade, which angered the colonists.
taxes
True or False. Boston was the only city to have a “tea party.”
False
Colonists argued that the colonies had no ____________ in Parliament, so they had no right to tax them.
representation
In the fall of 1774, delegates from all the colonies, except _______, met in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress.
Georgia
The Second Continental Congress meets in ___________ in 1775, with John Hancock serving as the president of the Congress.
Philadelphia
Tax resistance among the colonists took three forms: intellectual protests, ___________, and violent intimidations.
economic boycotts
Boston Patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded three British ships laden with tea and dumped the tea in the harbor. This event came to be known as the __________________
Boston Tea Party.
One of the delegates to the Continental Congress from Virginia was Patrick Henry, who became famous for declaring
“Give me liberty, or give me death”.
Parliament needed to raise money, both to ____ their debt and to ______ the colonies.
pay protect
****Daily Double****
In the Treaty of Paris, the United States gained its independence from Britain, gained all lands from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River and __________
Fishing Rights off Canadian Atlantic Coast
The French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion revealed the tensions between the _____ and their colonists.
British
One night in 1770, a group of Patriots started to throw snowballs at Loyalists. Someone yelled “Fire!” and the Loyalist fired and killed five unarmed Patriots. This became known as the ____________.
Boston Massacre
True or False. Colonists drew upon the liberalism of the Enlightenment
True
The last major battle of the American Revolution was the _________________.
Battle at Yorktown
The British were very upset with the colonists’ actions at Boston. To punish them, Parliament passed these acts, which were laws that closed the port of Boston to trade until the colonists paid for the wasted tea. To enforce this, they sent warships and troops to Boston.
Coercive Acts
***Daily Double***
The ____________showed the British that the colonists would not accept a direct tax.
Stamp Act