The original thirteen American colonies were controlled by this European nation
What is Great Britain / England?
100
Goods (and people) brought by British merchants to sell in the Americans colonies. The opposite of EXPORTS.
What are IMPORTS?
100
This was the slogan of American colonists who were mad at having to pay taxes and obey other laws that they could not vote on.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
100
Clash between American colonists and British soldiers, which led to the death of Crispus Attucks and others.
The Americans started it-- they were throwing rocks and ice chunks!
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
The number of original American colonies x 1.
What is 13?
200
America, India, Australia and Jamaica were all once colonies of the....
What is the British Empire
200
Agricultural products grown on large plantations to sell, not to eat (because you can't eat cotton!)
What are CASH CROPS?
200
This British law put a tax on the sellers of tea, making it more expensive for Americans to buy. Americans said "Boycott British Tea!"
What is the Tea Act?
200
The British army "locked down" the city of Boston after the Boston Massacre, limited the freedoms of the American colonists. This is called....
What is martial law?
200
The year the American Revolution began x 1000 +1.
What is 1,776,001?
300
This is the nickname that Europeans had for the North and South American continents.
What is the New World?
300
a war in North America between rival empires Britain and France over control the American colonies. Natives (Indians) fought on both sides. The British won.
What is The French and Indian War?
300
This British law forced Americans to pay a tax on the stamp needed for official documents, like bills of sale, contracts and wills.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
To protest the Tea Act, colonists boarded a ship belonging to the East India Tea company and threw the cargo overboard into Boston Harbor. No wonder all the fish died!!!
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
They were two-thirds of the American population in the Southern states.
Who are slaves?
400
The transatlantic system of trade between (1) Europe (2) Africa and (3) the Americas / Caribbean
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
400
King George III says "No American colonists allowed to move to the frontier west of the Appalachian Mountains!"
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
This British law gave British army officers the right to "commandeer" (take over) American homes for lodging.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
Bad colonists!!! These laws were meant to punish the American colonists after that Tea Party incident. It was too much for the colonists to TOLERATE.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
The American Revolution lasted this many years (it ended in 1783).
What is 7?
500
When one nation uses their military power to take control of another nation to use their natural resources. The British Empire did it in the Americas and around the world.
What is IMPERIALISM?
500
One of many slave rebellions in America's early history--caused the governemnt to pass harsh laws limiting what slaves could do.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
500
This British law forced Americans to pay a tax in order to pay the salaries of British colonial officials.
What are the Townshend Acts?
500
To avoid going to war, the American colonists sent an offer of peace, to King George III. He didn't go it.....
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
The number of British laws passed by Parliament that were protested by American colonists x 10 +40.
HINT: ACT=LAW