As a result of the Quartering Act, colonists were angry that British soldiers were occupying their homes and towns. The colonists started teasing and throwing objects at the soldiers, which led to a British soldier firing shots into the crowd of unarmed colonists. What is the name of this event?
What is Boston Massacre
100
King George III created these acts as punishment after the Boston Tea Party. One punishment was that the Boston Harbor was closed. What is the name of these acts?
What is Intolerable Acts
200
The murder of people who cannot defend themselves
What is Massacre
200
Freedom
What is Independence
200
The act of standing for something
What is Representation
200
King George III made the colonists pay a tax on many everyday printed materials. For example, newspapers and playing cards.
What is The Stamp Act
200
In reaction to the Tea Act placed on the colonies by King George III, the colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party
300
To refuse to buy a good or service
What is Boycott
300
The act of taxing people
What is Taxation
300
A small group of people who sided with the colonies and would be ready to fight in a 'minutes' notice
What is Minutemen
300
WHO is a hard worker, strong military leader, and committed to his men?
HINT: Famous war hero on the American side.
What is George Washington
300
King George III sent British troops to North America to protect the colonists from Native Americans and the Spanish. As a result, the colonists were forced to provide housing for the British soldiers. What was this act called?
What is Quartering Act
400
A person in the American Colonies who wanted the colonies to break away from Great Britain
What is Patriot
400
A small army made up of ordinary citizens
What is militia
400
To revoke of take away something
What is Repeal
400
Native Americans could have all of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and settlers (colonists) could not move there.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
400
What group would have been associated with the slogan (motto), "No Taxation without Representation" ?
What is Sons of Liberty
500
Not willing to put up with something
What is Intolerable
500
The lawmaking part of the British Government
What is Parliament
500
People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to stay under rule of the King George III and Great Britain
What is Loyalist
500
The Stamp Act, the Tea Act and the Intolerable Acts are all examples of ___________?
What is British mercantilism
500
Why did the French and Indian War start?
HINT: What were both the French and British wanting to get in North America?
What is The French and British both wanted to claim the Ohio River Valley for themselves.