Getting Ready to Fight
This country owned 13 colonies
What is England?
This Fort was NECESSARY to build because the French soldiers were on their way.
What is Fort Necessity?
The British did not want to fight this group over land anymore.
Who are the Indians?
This word means to stop buying something.
What is boycott
People who remained LOYAL to the king were called this.
Who were Loyalists?
The 13 colonies were located along this coast.
What is the Atlantic Coast?
General Braddock fought against the French and died in battle. This is where the French buried him.
What is in the road?
The British angered the colonists by asking them to pay this on many of their products.
What is a tax?
The colonists were angry because they didn't have this with their government.
What is a say?
People who wanted to fight against England were called this.
Who were Patriots?
The French built a bunch of these type of buildings to protect their land.
What are forts?
This fort was built near the town of PITTsborough and has now become the city of PITTsburgh.
What is Fort Pitt?
The colonists decided to toss this overboard instead of paying a tax on it.
What is tea?
The colonists met in this city when they decided to break away from England.
What is Philadelphia?
This document was written on July 4, 1776 and DECLARED our INDEPENDENCE from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man was sent by the Va. governor to try and encourage the French to leave the colonies.
Who is George Washington?
This is how much land the French received after the war.
What is none?
This is where the colonists decided to throw the tea overboard.
Where is Boston Harbor?
The meeting in Philadelphia was called this.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This person was chosen to write most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the answer the French gave George Washington. (Yes or No)
What is no?
This was the name of the war we have been talking about between the French and the English.
What is French and Indian War?
Name 3 items that the English tried to make the colonists pay a tax on.
What is sugar, molasses, paper, playing cards, glass, paint, and tea?
The colonists tried to convince this group to join in the fight.
Who are the Quakers?
The Gradual Abolition Act abolished slavery. Abolish means to make slavery _______.
What is illegal?