French & Indian War
Who won the French & Indian War?
British
What year was the Sugar Act?
1764
What year was the Stamp Act?
1765
How many colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre?
5
When did the French & Indian War start?
1754
Money that people have to pay to the government.
How did Great Britain enforce the payment of taxes?
They sent soldiers to the colonies to search homes and businesses.
What is a massacre?
When a group of people are killed in a cruel way.
Why did the French & Indian War start?
It started over land disputes.
Why did the Proclamation anger colonists?
The colonists had just fought in the war and they felt like they should get some land in return.
Why did the colonists smuggle sugar?
They did not want to pay for the sugar and the British taxed it.
What was taxed in the Stamp Act?
Newspaper, calendars, playing cards, and legal documents
When was the Boston Massacre?
March 5, 1770
Who was Crispus Attucks?
A freed slave and first to be killed in the American Revolution.
Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?
So that the Native Americans could keep their land. The Proclamation stated that the colonists could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Name one of the Sons of Liberty.
Samuel Adams, John Hancock, or Paul Revere