Vocabulary
Refusing to buy, sell, or trade goods
Boycott
What did Britain and France fight for control over?
The Ohio River Valley
Why didn't colonists want to pay taxes?
They had no say in making tax laws.
"No taxation without representation!"
Why did the Boston Massacre start?
A crowd of colonists yelled and threw snowballs at soldiers.
Where was the first battle between colonists and British soldiers?
Lexington and Concord
A colonist opposed against British rule
Patriot
Native Americans where an ally of the British or French?
French
The Daughters of Liberty boycotted (stopped) buying British goods and decided to make what?
They made their own cloth.
Why were the Committees of Correspondence important?
They could share news faster across the colonies.
What did the Continental Congress send to King George III to ask for a peaceful end to the conflict between colonists and the British?
The Olive Branch Petition
Militia with special training
Minutemen
What land did Britain control after the war?
Canada and most of the land east of the Mississippi River
True or False: After the Stamp Act, colonists decided only the governments of the colonies should tax the colonists.
True
Why did the Sons of Liberty have the Boston Tea Party?
To protest the British tea tax
Why did the militia lose the Battle of Bunker Hill?
They ran out of ammunition.
Freedom from being controlled by another government
Liberty
At the end of the French and Indian War, what did Britain and France sign?
The Treaty of Paris
They didn't want to pay taxes.
What event lead to the death of 5 colonists?
The Boston Massacre
True or False: An army of trained soldiers was created to win a war against Britain.
True - After the first battles, the colonists realized a militia was not going to be enough to win their independence.
The killing of many people
Massacre
Why did Britain make the Proclamation of 1763?
To avoid fighting the Native Americans
Why did the British keep the tax on tea?
Britain wanted to prove it could still tax the colonies.
Name 3 tax acts.
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Tea Act, Coercive Act
Who sent soldiers to capture the colonists' military supplies (guns, ammunition, cannons)?
General Thomas Gage, the new British governor of Massachusetts