Lesson 1: The French & Indian War
This is the number of British-controlled colonies in North America that were established when the French and Indian war broke out.
13
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited British colonists from creating new settlements anywhere west of this mountain range
The Appalachian Mountains
The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a reaction to what action by the British government?
A tax on Tea, the Tea Act
This is the name for people who did not want to fight for freedom from British rule
Loyalists
Fearful of the consequences of a Patriot victory in the war, this group found itself as a British ally in the American Revolution
Native American tribes including Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw
This is the country that most Native American tribes chose as their ally in the French and Indian War
France
To help pay for debts incurred during the French and Indian War, the British government used this mechanism to raise funds
This is the name of the Colony where the first military conflict of the American Revolution took place
Massachusetts
This is the name of the author of the pro-revolution pamphlet Common Sense
Thomas Paine
American revolutionary fighters earned victories by using this kind of 'hit and run' fighting strategy that relied on knowledge of the unique geography of the colonies
Guerilla warfare
This famous Virginian became a British Army General during the French and Indian War, fighting in the first battle of the War at Fort Necessity in what is now Ohio
George Washington
The Stamp Act was enacted by the British Parliament in 1764, and it received immediate backlash from residents in the Colonies. This is one reason why the Stamp Act was so infuriating.
Acceptable answers:
1. No Taxation without Representation
2. British Colonists had never had to pay a stamp tax before
3. This tax affected everyday items the Colonists relied on, so there was no way to avoid paying it
Describe one of the four Intolerable Acts
1. A blockade of Boston Harbor
2. No town meetings
3. Trials for major crimes were moved to Canada
4. The Quartering Act - Colonists had to house British Soldiers
The Continental Congress decided in 1776 to form a committee headed by Thomas Jefferson to draft this important document
The Declaration of Independence
This is the name of the town and the final battle of the American Revolution, which took place in 1781
Yorktown
The Albany Plan of Union was the first time the British Colonies proposed a plan for a unified government. When the colonial delegates returned to their respective colonies to ask them to adopt the plan, this is how many colonies ultimately signed on.
Zero.
The Stamp Act was repealed after two years, but was replaced by a new set of rules called the Townshend Act, which imposed new taxes and also allowed British Officers to enforce Writs of Assistance, which permitted them to do what
Search ships and warehouses for smuggled goods - something we today would call "unreasonable search and seizure"
This is the name for the anti-British groups who would write to newspapers about what was happening in other colonies
Committees of Correspondence
General George Washington lost multiple battles early in the war, but earned a significant victory by launching a surprise Christmas Eve attack on this New Jersey city in 1776
Trenton
This is the name of the 1783 Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and officially recognized American Independence
The Treaty of Paris
This is the name of the Treaty that officially ended the Seven Years' War between France and England in 1762.
The Treaty of Paris
This is the name of one of the first organized groups formed to oppose British rule - notable members included Sam Adams and Paul Revere
The Sons of Liberty
In April 1775, several hundred minutemen assembled in these Massachusetts towns for what became the first battles of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
Decisive losses in upstate New York ended the idea of a New England strategy by British General Burgoyne, and resulted in the Colonies' first official ally - this nation
France
The Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War established a new western boundary for the United States - instead of the Appalachian Mountains, it was now this landform
The Mississippi River