Road to Revolution #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution. He issued this first which angered colonists.
KING GEORGE III. What is The Proclamation of 1763
Name of the British government
Parliament
Area of land that the French & Indian War was fought over:
Ohio River Valley
This group manufactured goods (especially textiles) at home to combat the Townshend Acts.
Daughters of Liberty
When a mother country has a hands off approach to governing their colony.
Salutary Neglect
This colony chose not to participate in the first Continental Congress
Georgia
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
Someone that wanted to be free from British rule.
Patriot
This was signed to end the French & Indian War:
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Secret meeting of the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia to discuss how to respond to British taxes and especially the intolerable Acts
1st Continental Congress
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
BOSTON MASSACRE
This is an unofficial army of citizens that come together to fight:
Militia
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
Tea Act
This country was approached by colonists to help financially support the revolution.
France
The purpose was to work together to warn neighboring colonies about incidents occurring in New England with the British
Committees of Correspondence
France loses claims to Ohio River Valley to this Country
Great Britain
The British were taxing the colonies to pay debts from which war?
French & Indian War
It was someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to England.
Loyalist
This man built fort Necessity during the French & Indian War. He was also Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
George Washington
System that took raw materials from colonies and manufactured finished products in the mother country.
Mercantilism
This act in (1764) placed duties on foreign sugar, stop smuggling
SUGAR ACT
This act in (1765) provided food and shelter to soldiers
Quartering Act
1.Closed the port of Boston
2.Gov’t Act –decreased power of Mass. legislature
3.New Quartering Act
4.Administration of Justice Act – accused royal officials were to be tried in a court in England
Intolerable/Coersive Acts
This allowed the use of general search warrants, which let them search anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Writs of Assistance
This act stated that ships coming from the colonies had to go through England first, and that any ship used had to be an English ship.
Navigation Laws/Acts
Settlers from both nations had designs on settling the rich lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, often called the Ohio River Valley.
Great Britain and France
banned all settlement west of the Appalachians.
Proclamation of 1763
This company held a monopoly on British tea imports.
British East India Company
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called:
TAXATION WITH
OUT REPRESENTATION
The Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts for the _______________.
Boston Tea Party