War & Albany Plan
What plan did Franklin propose in 1754 to unite the colonies for defense?
The Albany Plan.
Which young Virginia officer surrendered at Fort Necessity in 1754?
George Washington.
Which 1764 act enforced duties on sugar and molasses to raise revenue?
The Sugar Act.
Which 1767 duties taxed imported goods such as lead, paint, paper, and tea?
The Townshend Duties, or Townshend Acts.
What 1770 incident involved British soldiers firing into a Boston crowd?
The Boston Massacre.
Which river valley was the main territorial flashpoint of the French and Indian War?
The Ohio Valley.
Which British general was fatally wounded in a 1755 French and Native American ambush?
Edward Braddock.
Which 1764 act restricted colonial paper money?
The Currency Act.
Which 1773 act helped the East India Company undersell colonial tea merchants?
The Tea Act.
Which protest group intimidated stamp agents and organized resistance to British taxes?
The Sons of Liberty.
Which British leader sent reinforcements and reimbursed colonial war expenses?
William Pitt.
Which Native confederacy allied with Britain but fought little during the war?
The Iroquois Confederacy.
Which 1765 act taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials?
The Stamp Act.
Which punitive laws closed Boston's port after the Tea Party?
The Coercive Acts, also called the Intolerable Acts.
What 1773 protest involved dumping East India Company tea into Boston Harbor?
The Boston Tea Party.
Which British and French commanders both died at Quebec in 1759?
James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm.
Most Ohio Valley Native groups sided with which European power during the war?
France.
Which 1765 act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British troops?
The Mutiny Act, also called the Quartering Act.
Which 1774 act protected Catholic religious practice in Canada and expanded Quebec's boundaries?
The Quebec Act.
What 1774 meeting organized a boycott and recommended colonial military preparations?
The First Continental Congress.
Under the 1763 Peace of Paris, which country gained Canada from France?
Great Britain.
Which Ottawa leader helped organize resistance to British expansion after the war?
Pontiac.
Which act claimed Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever?
The Declaratory Act.
Which royal policy barred settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
The Proclamation of 1763.
At which two Massachusetts towns did fighting begin in April 1775?
Lexington and Concord.