Obligatory Vocab Category
Who Am I?
Battles and Such
English Issues
Potpourri
100
Civilians trained to protect their communities.
What is a militia?
100
He proposed the Albany Plan of the Union.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The British lost this fort to Pontiac and his forces.
What is Fort Detroit?
100
This Prime Minister made winning the French and Indian War an extreme priority.
Who is William Pitt?
100
He published his own newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, to air political opinions.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
A formal, written request to someone in authority.
What is a petition?
200
I led a rebellion and tried to get the English to leave our ancestral lands.
Who is Pontiac?
200
I had 5 horses shot out from under me and I was eventually killed near Fort Duquesne.
Who is Edward Braddock?
200
This Prime Minister thought the colonists should stop complaining and pay their fair share of the war debt.
Who is George Grenville?
200
He terrified colonial audiences with "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathon Edwards?
300
Taxed everything from diplomas to dice.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
I tried to force the colonists to do my bidding as my mind was beginning to unravel.
Who is King George III?
300
General James Wolfe and his men climbed the cliffs at the Plains of Abraham to take this French capital in the new world.
What is Quebec?
300
In this unprecedented event, King James II was removed from the English throne and replaced with William and Mary, the rulers of the Netherlands.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
300
A movement based on the idea of the light of human reason and an emphasis on secular ideas.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
To refuse to buy certain goods and services.
What is a boycott?
400
I warned the colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
400
This treaty ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The English believed that only England should benefit from its colonies and their trade, an economic policy known as this.
What is mercantilism?
400
The act of punishing a written statement that may unjustly diminish a person's reputation.
What is libel?
500
A written list of freedoms the government promises to protect.
What is a bill of rights?
500
They call me the "King of the Wild Frontier." I defied the Proclamation of 1763 and headed West.
Who is Daniel Boone?
500
This young English officer and his men were captured by the French after they tried to ambush a French envoy.
Who is George Washington?
500
William and Mary signed these into law in 1689, dramatically altering the freedoms of English citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
500
He said all people were entitled to rights of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?