profitable trading resource between french and indians
What is fur?
100
name at least 2 strategies colonists would use against Britain to revolt against implementation of taxes
What is boycott, protest, tar & feather
100
In protest for taxes on tea, colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston harbor known as this event......
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
name given to colonial civilian soldiers who were ready to fight against the British at a moments notice
Who are minutemen?
100
Name given for British Government
What is Parliament?
200
name 2 causes for the French Indian war
What is land/colonial expansion, new raw materials/resources, power
200
This act put a tax on all printed paper material in the colonies
What is the stamp act?
200
a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
This man wrote the novel "common sense" to convince colonists to declare independence from Great Britian
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
Secret society formed by the colonists to fight for independence against Great Britain
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
300
this treaty officially ended the French Indian war
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
Name 1 reason colonists gave for not paying British imposed taxes
What is no taxation without representation, only colonial gov'ts should tax colonists, colonists do not have vote in Parliament
300
In 1774, Parliament passed a series of laws meant to punish Massachusets after the Boston Tea Party
What is the intolerable/Coercive acts
300
This man rode his horse all over Boston to warn colonists "The British are coming"!
Who is Paul Revere?
300
This battle in Massachusetts sparked the start of the American Revolution
What is the battle of lexington & concord?
400
Name at least 1 new territory gained by Britain as a result of the French Indian War
What is all land east of Mississippi river (ohio river valley), caribbean islands, parts of modern day canada, florida
400
Name 1 reason why Britain felt colonists should pay taxes
What is re-pay war debt for French Indian war, Britain sovereign power, colonists should help pay for protection
400
a meeting of colonial delegates 12 out of 13 colonies (except Georgia) in Philadelphia to discuss actions to take against British in response to intolerable acts.
What is the 1st continental congress
400
Restrictions on colonial trade by Great Britian (ex:colony could only trade with mother country)
What are the navagation acts?
400
a general search warrant issued by Great Britain that gave soldiers permission to search colonial shops/homes for smuggled goods.
What is the Writs of Assistance?
500
this imaginary line was England’s attempt to control the colonies by banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
500
tax on all molasses, tax lowered as an attempt to reduce colonial smuggling
What is the sugar act?
500
a series of acts (taxes) passed on items such as glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea , beginning in 1767, by Great Britian onto the colonies.
What are the townshend acts?
500
The Colonists were inspired for ideas written in the Declaration of independence by this enlightenment thinker
Who is John Locke?
500
act that forced colonists to house, feed, clothe British soldiers