The Colonies
Colony where someone spilt the tea...
What is Massachusetts?
A group made up of people who have wealth.
Who are the Dissident Elites?
Leader of the colonists' battles who was very successful.
Who was George Washington?
Made French language & Roman Catholicism official in the British colony of __________.
What was the Quebec Act?
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When nervous British soldiers misunderstood an order and fired their muskets.
What was the Boston Massacre?
Georgia was an OG colony.
What is true?
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A large % of the population feels unhappy in their current society.
What is mass frustration?
The Queen of England, who decided to form the 13 colonies.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
Britain is deeply in debt and decides to put in place a new tax in which a ____________ is required to be stuck on items brought and sold including for documents and newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
"No taxation without representation" basically led to this (the last straw).
What is the American Revolution?
Maine was an OG colony.
What is false?
A unification of all classes and people who might rebel.
What is shared motivation?
Name at LEAST ONE key French philosopher who had followers in both Europe AND America from their ideas.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau, OR Montesquieu, OR Voltaire?
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Taxes to pay on paper, paint, glass, silk, lead, and tea.
What is the Townshed Act?
When the political group, "Sons of Liberty," dumped millions of dollars' worth of a beverage into the Boston Harbour.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The colony where the Battle of York took place.
What is Virginia?
When the government fails to meet its people's needs.
What is a state crisis?
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The issuing of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 establish a basis of government administration in the North American territories given by France to Britain following the Seven Years' War.
Who is King George the 3rd?
The British Parliament gave all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India Company.
What is the Tea Act?
When the British Parliament passed a series of acts to punish Boston for the Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Colony where the Battle of Saratoga took place.
What is New York?
Cause of a possible revolution.
What are the deprivation of rights OR Crises of the State?
The 3 key dudes that helped DRAFT the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams?
When the British government passed the act that changed taxation on sweet consumable substances.
What was the Sugar Act?
Meant to keep Americans out of settlements in the vast Ohio Valley Region & provided lands reserved for Indigenous groups.
What was the Land Speculation Act & the Ohio Valley?
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