French and Indian War
The British and the French both became interested in this area of North America in the 1740s.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The American Revenue Act of 1764 was better known by this name, placed new taxes on silk, wine, pimento and indigo, among other things.
What is the Sugar Act?
This document shaped public opinion in 1776 by attacking King George III, and not parliament, as the enemy.
What is Common Sense?
This represented the first actual battle of the Revolutionary War, in which the British lost 99 men and the colonial forces lost 49.
What was Lexington and Concord?
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was "drawn" from north to south along this geographic feature.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
This was the first direct tax the British had ever levied on the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
This founding father, in 1773, suggested that each colony create Committees of Correspondence to organize better communication and plans for resisting the British.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
With the declaration of Independence signed, the new nation established this form of government in which power resides with the citizens entitled to vote.
What is a republic?
He drew the Join or Die serpent after developing the Albany Plan.
Who was Ben Franklin?
In the summer of 1765, this group formed in Boston, and held huge demonstrations throughout the city.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Due to this attack, the King ignored and refused to even look at the Olive Branch Petition.
What was the attack on Quebec?
In the Boston Massacre, this was the total number of colonists killed.
What was 5?
At the Albany Conference, this tribe refused an alliance with Britain, but at least remained neutral.
Who were the Iroquois?
The Revenue Act of 1767 placed taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea, and also legalized the use of these general search warrants.
What were writs of assistance?
Common Sense led to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence which was submitted by a committee of five founding fathers- these are three of the five men who submitted it.
Who were Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Sherman, and Livingston?
After the Stamp Act, colonists organized these forms of "protest" which had a powerful effect on the British economy.
What were boycotts?
George Washington, at 22 years old, stood up to the French and became a hero after building and defending this stockade in 1754.
What is Fort Necessity?
One of the coercive or intolerable acts that was passed was this controversial law that required local officials to provide lodging for British soldiers in private homes when necessary.
What was the quartering act?
With this document, the war ended and Britain recognized the United States of America as a new nation.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The Townshend Acts were mostly repealed, with the exception of one tax law, which led directly to this memorable raid.
What was the Boston Tea Party?