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Colonial Hodgepodge
Great Britain "Acts" Out
The Colonists Resist
From Protest to Rebellion
The War Begins
100
The French & Indian War began as a fight over control of this land.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100

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It established a British monopoly on tea.

100
Famous phrase that summed up most colonists feelings about British taxation.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
100
In addition to forming the Continental army and printing money to pay war expenses, the Second Continental Congress also selected this Virginia planter and land surveyor to command the Patriot forces.
Who is George Washington?
100
Colonists who remained loyal to the king.
What are loyalist?
200

An import tax.

What is a duty?

200

It required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

What is the Stamp Act?

200

To protest high taxes and trade restrictions like the Navigation Acts, colonial merchants secretly brought goods into the colonies illegally, a practice known as this.

What is smuggling?

200
The street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers that led to the deaths of 5 colonists and increased tensions in the New England area.
What is The Boston Massacre?
200
"The shot heard around the world" was fired at this battle.
What is The Battle of Lexington?
300

total control of the market for a certain product

What is a monopoly?

300
American colonists were required to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
What is The Quartering Act?
300
An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products.
What is a boycott?
300
These organizations were formed to keep colonists informed of British actions.
What are Committees of Correspondence?
300
Colonists who favored independence and were willing to fight for it.
What are patriots?
400

Which colony was the only one NOT to send representatives to the First Continental Congress?

What is Georgia?

400
Colonists largely ignored this British act that forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
400
One of the First things this group did was demand the repeal of the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
400
Citizen soldier who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
What are minutemen?
400
Though they lost this early battle due to a lack of ammunition it showed that the colonists could fight and stand up to Britain's professional soldiers.
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill?
500

court order that allowed officials to make searches without saying what they were searching for

What is a Writ of Assistance?

500
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed four laws so harsh that colonists called them by this nickname.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
A written request to a government.
What is a petition?
500

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A get together organized by the Sons of Liberty on December 16, 1773.

500

Paul Revere’s ride took place on the night of April 18 in this year, just hours before the battles of Lexington and Concord.

What is 1775?