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This caused the loss of all French colonies in North America
What is the French and Indian War.
100
Results of the Tea Act
What is smuggled tea from Holland, the Boston Tea Party
100
Battle that ended the American Revolution
What is Yorktown
100
Revere, Prescott, Dawes
Who are the Midnight Riders
100
A solution for raising revenue after going into debt to finance the French and Indian war.
What is taxing the Americans.
200
How the Americans that fought in the French and Indian war felt like they were treated by the British.
Treated like they were inferior, rustic, uneducated.
200
The first direct tax on the colonists (not on an import).
What is the Stamp Act.
200
Turning point of the Revolution: prompted French involvement
What is Saratoga
200
Reason the Americans thought the British were marching out of Boston
To capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams
200
Reasons the Americans believed the British couldn't or shouldn't tax them.
They paid local taxes, they had no representative in Parliament, they were paying for soldiers they didn't want to have.
300
The House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and town meetings.
What are example of Colonial Self-Government.
300
Where does this license plate's slogan come from? http://dccamerafraud.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dcplate.jpg
What is the slogan "No taxation without representation"
300
Training ground for Washington's army; army learns discipline and transforms from a militia into an army
What is Valley Forge
300
What event prompted Congress to appoint George Washington as Commander-in-Chief and also write the Olive Branch Petition to King George?
Lexington and Concord
300
"Shot heard 'round the world"
What is Lexington and Concord
400
What Colonists hoped to gain from participating in the French and Indian War
What is more land to settle and safety from French and Native Americans.
400
This Act set the Colonies' Western boundaries and angered the Colonist who'd just fought to settle in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
Hessians
Soldiers hired by the British to fight the Americans
400
Date the Declaration of Independence adopted.
What is July 4, 1776?
400
"One if by land and two if by sea"
What is Longfellow's poem: "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
500
Name two results of the French and Indian War for the Americans: one positive, one negative.
Training ground for future military leaders; colonies united for the first time; learned a new fighting style; first meeting of representatives from all colonies; more British involvement; negative feelings toward British; feel like British look down on them
500
The 4 Parts of the Intolerable Acts
What are the Quartering Act, closing Boston Harbor, suspending Massachusetts government, granting more rights to Quebec, moves many trials from MA to England
500
Early morning attack by Washington across the Delaware the morning after Christmas: it took the Hessians by surprise.
What is the Battle of Trenton
500
Why the Americans lost at Bunker Hill
They ran out of ammunition
500
Permission to search anywhere at anytime
What are Writs of Assistance