French and Indian War
War that began in North America as a result of ongoing British-American expansion into the Ohio River Valley, which was also claimed by France.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act taxed every piece of printed paper the colonists used.
What is the Stamp Act?
He becomes President after George Washington.
Who is JOHN ADAMS?
People who came to work in exchange for transportation and housing for 5-7 years
What are Indentured Servants?
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
What is the BOSTON MASSACRE
Name of the river that Washington & his troops crossed during theRevolution
What is the DELAWARE?
American commander who lost the Battle of Fort Necessity.
Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON?
These acts shut down the Boston Harbor. Colonists also had to quarter British soldiers and Massachusetts was placed under martial law.
What are the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts
City in which most of Hamilton takes place.
What is NEW YORK CITY?
Number of colonies at time of revolution?
What is 13?
During this event, people dressed as Native Americans and boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called
What is TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?
This city was originally known as Fort Duquesne
What is PITTSBURGH?
A series of acts that placed tariffs, or taxes, on products coming into the colonies. This included taxes on glass, tea, lead, and paper.
What are the Townsend Acts?
Advice that Aaron Burr gives Hamilton.
What is TALK LESS, SMILE MORE?
He founded the colony of Pennsylvania
Who is WILLIAM PENN?
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight rides warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord
Who is PAUL REVERE?
Location of the the first battle of the American Revolution
What is LEXINGTON? (CONCORD)
Treaty that ended the French and Indian War?
What is Treaty of Paris?
Strengthened enforcement on sugar, while lowering the duty on molasses, damaging the sugar grown in the colonies
What is the Sugar Act?
First name of Hamilton's oldest sister-in law.
Who is ANGELICA?
The trade route that carried enslaved Africans to the West Indies
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?
Strategy of refusing to purchase goods in the hopes of weakening another country
What is a boycott?
Who were the HESSIANS?
Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain. "No taxation....
What is "WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
Group formed in 1765 in Boston that attacked stamp agents and would go on to be a powerful, underground colonial terrorist group in Massachusetts
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
He killed Hamilton in a duel
Who is Aaron Burr
The first permanent settlement of the New World
What is JAMESTOWN?
Laws in the colonies that were designed to make an example of Massachusetts and hopefully quell the growing resistance to British authority throughout the colonies
What are the INTOLERABLE ACTS?
He has the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Hancock?
Year the French and Indian War ended.
What is 1763?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
What is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Battle where Hamilton achieved military fame
What is YORKTOWN?
He founded the colony of Maryland?
Who is Lord Baltimore?
This document officially ended the American Revolution as an agreement of peace.
What is the TREATY OF PARIS
Name of the ship that the Pilgrims came to the Americas on
What is the Mayflower?