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The only major economic activity in New France.
What is beaver or fur trading?
100
The first tax placed on the colonists following the French and Indian War. It was intended to reduce smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
He was named General of the Continental Army at the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
100
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is the "Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson?
100
His "Join, Or Die" drawing was created in an attempt to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The region which the French and British fought over in North America
What is the Ohio River Valley?
200
The most widely protested tax placed on the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Thomas Paine argued for the creation of this type of government in his pamphlet "Common Sense."
What is a Republic?
200
"Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."
What is "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine?
200
Name at least three of the members of the Committee of Five in charge of drafting a declaration of independence during the Second Continental Congress.
Who are John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
300
This law forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
Britain followed the repeal of the Stamp Act with this act.
What is the Declaratory Act?
300
These "legalized pirates" helped disrupt British shipping by capturing many British naval vessels.
What are Privateers?
300
"MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects...entreat your Majesty’s gracious attention to this our humble petition...we think ourselves required...to use all the means in our power, not incompatible with our safety, for stopping the further effusion of blood, and for averting the impending calamities that threaten the British Empire."
What is the "Olive Branch Petition" by John Dickinson?
300
His raids on British forts in the Ohio River Valley led the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763.
Who is Pontiac?
400
The short term goal of this meeting was to gain help from the Iriquois. The long term goal was to achieve colonial unity.
What is the Albany Congress?
400
This former slave was killed in the Boston Massacre and used as a martyr and a symbol of the patriot cause and a rallying cry for freedom.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
These people were typically upper class, well educated, Anglicans.
Who are Loyalitst/Tories?
400
"...be it declared by the king's Most Excellent Majesty...That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and Parliament of Great Britain. and that the king's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever."
What is the Declaratory Act by the British House of Commons (Parliament)?
400
This British prime minister and "great commoner" shifted the war strategy to taking Quebec and other Canadian areas during the French and Indian War.
Who is William Pitt?
500
This law, which stated that the colonies could trade only with the mother country, went largely unenforced until the end of the French and Indian War.
What is the Navigation Act/Navigation Laws?
500
The Stamp Act caused such a great uproar because it was the first of this type of tax, where taxes are placed on the people rather than on merchants importing goods.
What is a direct tax?
500
This British general was forced to surrender his entire force of 7,000 men at Saratoga, resulting in a colonial victory that would help gain a Franco-American Alliance.
Who is John Burgoyne?
500
"His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States... to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof."
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783 by Ben Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, et al?
500
British prime minister who decided to tax the colonists in order to help pay for the war. The Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Stamp Act were all created during his time as prime minister.
Who is George Grenville?