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French and Indian War
American Revolution
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Know your dates!
100
This territory was claimed by both the French and the British and conflict here ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio Valley?
100
The end of this is one of the primary reasons for the Revolutionary War.
What is salutary neglect?
100

The reduction of this practice was one of the causes of an increased use of African Slaves

What is Indentured Servitude?

100

Economic system in which the rules are set up to enrich the mother country through colonies

What is Mercantilism

100

When did the English first arrive at Jamestown?

1607

200
This man led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
200
This act required a tax on all printed items, from college diplomas, court documents, land titles, and contracts to newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards.
What is The Stamp Act?
200

What event led to the end of indentured servitude, as it unified white people, enslaved persons, and Native Americans?

Bacon's Rebellion

200

What law taxed paper, dice, and playing cards?

Stamp Act

200

When did the British create the Proclamation of 1763 that ordered colonists to stop migrating west of the Appalachian Mountains?

1763

300
This plan proposed one general government be formed in America that includes all of the colonies to help the British counter French Expansion.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
300
This is the idea that colonists had representation in Parliament because there were transatlantic merchants and West Indian sugar planters as members.
What is virtual representation?
300

What is the name of the SPANISH system in which they enslaved Native Americans and tried to convert them to Catholocism.

Encomienda System

300

What law said the British were in charge of everything in the colonies and could make any law they wanted?

Declaratory Act
300

When did the colonists declare independence from Britain?

1776

400
The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years War?
400
Kerfuffles at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400

What are THREE cash crops that massively increased the amount of slaves in the US?

What is tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar, cotton etc.

400

This new law included:

-import tariff on oil, paint, lead, glass, and tea and other raw materials
-repealed in 1770 on all except tax on tea

Townshend Acts

400

When did Columbus arrive in North America?

1491

500
This granted Britain the following territories: French Canada, all French territory east of the Mississippi River, Spanish Florida and recent conquests in Africa and India.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
500
American victory at this battle led to a military alliance with France.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
500

What is the largest slave rebellion in American History that took place in South Carolina?

Stono Rebellion

500

This law is a concrete example of Mercantilism. It is the first time in which the British banned colonists from trading with other colonies. 

Navigation Act (of 1696)

500

When did the French and Indian War start?

1754