Leading to War
Which were the two main countries fighting in the French and Indian War?
Britain and France
This Act made it legal for troops to stay and be fed in colonial homes.
What are the Quartering Act, Coercive Act, or the Intolerable Acts?
The colonists threw this into the Boston Harbor as a protest to many taxes.
What is tea?
What did the British repeal to try and keep peace with the colonists?
The Stamp Act
This is how Georgia remembered Haitian soldiers that fought alongside Patriots during the American Revolution.
Name the pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that influenced colonists.
What is Common Sense?
This Act put taxes on things such as playing cards, also including stamps.
What is the Stamp Act ?
This is what some women did to help in the war effort.
What type of branch symbolizes peace?
An olive branch
This is the side that many Native Americans took during the American Revolution.
How were colonists impacted by the new map drawn after the French and Indian war?
They could not go west as easily.
Which Act put a tax on items such as tea and lead?
What is the The Townshend Act?
What disguise did colonists wear so that they would not be noticed when conducting the Boston Tea Party?
Traditional Native American clothing
What did King George do with the Olive Branch petition?
He ignored it.
Lord Dunmore tried to recruit soldiers to help the British cause by promising this.
What is freedom to those enslaved?
What happened to the debt of Britain as a result of the French and Indian War?
It increased siginificantly.
Which act made it law that tea could only be purchased from Britain in the colonies?
What is The Tea Act?
Was the Boston Massacre engraving accurate?
No. It was biased and inaccurate so that colonial attitudes would be enraged. One can argue that the engraving was a form of propaganda.
What side were loyalists on in the build up to war?
Loyalists were living in the colonies, but they were on the side of the British.
How did the engravings of the Boston Massacre influence those living in the colonies?
It would cause colonists to become extremely angry at the British for hurting innocent people.
Who did the British expect to help them with their large debt?
They thought that by taxing the colonists and people in Britain, this would help the British decrease their debt.
The Intolerable Acts outlawed protests in the colonies. This first amendment right would protect this freedom.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
How may land speculators have been influenced by the Proclamation of 1763?
They may have been interested in rebellion, since this made their land investments worthless.
Describe the type of language that The Second Continental Congress used toward the king in their efforts to avoid war.
The language was very respectful and admiring so that the king's mind might be changed.
What may of have been a contributing factor for George Washington to participate in the American Revolution?