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French and Indian War & Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act & Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Vocabulary
100
The bright red uniforms of the British soldiers made them easy __________.
What is targets.
100
The Quartering Act allowed this country's soldiers to live in colonists' houses.
What is Britain?
100
True or False. Thousands of pounds of tea were dumped overboard into Boston Harbor.
TRUE
100
This is the murder of someone who cannot defend themselves.
What is a massacre?
100
This is the law making body in Britain.
What is Parliament?
200
In this year, a peace treaty gave Britain control of Canada.
What is 1763.
200
This is the year the Stamp Act was passed.
What is 1765?
200
The name of the laws Britain passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
The Intolerable Acts
200
The colonists threw these at the soldiers. Name at least two.
What are rocks/stones, snowballs, and chunks of ice?
200
This was another name for the laws passed by Parliament that affected the colonists.
What are "acts"?
300
The French and Indian war gave Britain more land, but it caused a lot of problems, such as unpaid bills, also known as this.
What are debts?
300
Three examples of items that were taxed with the Stamp Act.
What are newspapers, pamphlets, marriage licenses, playing cards.....?
300
The name of the company that Britain was trying to force the colonists to buy tea from with the Tea Act.
What is the British East India Company?
300
The soldiers thought the captain said this, which caused them to start shooting at the colonists.
What is FIRE?
300
This means to take back or cancel something like a law or a tax.
What is repeal?
400
Other than Canada, what land did Britain gain as an outcome of the war?
What is the land west of the Appalachian Mountains?
400
The British were afraid of these people, which resulted in them wanting to protect the colonists.
Native Americans
400
The men (Sons of Liberty) dressed like this to board the ship.
Who are Native Americans?
400
This man made the illustration to remind colonists of the tragedy of the Boston Massacre.
Who was Paul Revere?
400
This is the first meeting of colony representatives who wanted to discuss what to do about Britain.
What is First Continental Congress?
500
By the late ______s, Britain, France, and Spain often fought one another to gain more territory around the world.
What is 1600s?
500
This is the year the Quartering Act was passed.
What is 1765?
500
Colonists were angry because they did not have anyone representing them in British Parliament and they called it this.
What is taxation without representation?
500
Most likely to refer to the events of March 5, 1770 as "the Boston Massacre".
Who is a colonist from Boston?
500
This means to complain publicly about something you think is wrong or unfair.
What is to protest?