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100
This is unjust use of government power.
What is tyranny?
100
The colonists were largely left alone to govern themselves before this year in history.
What is 1763?
100
After the Proclamation of 1763, colonists continued to try and move west of the Appalachian Mountains. King George sent troops to force the colonists to obey his law. The troops needed somewhere to stay when the barracks, which were provided for them, were full. Therefore, the colonists were forced to house these soldiers and provide them with necessities. This is the name of that Act.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
The Boston Massacre took place largely because the colonists were angry about this.
What is having the British government constantly enforcing differently laws upon them without the colonists having a say in the matter?
100
The First Continental Congress met to in September of 1774 for this purpose.
What is to send a respectful message to King George III urging him to consider their complaints and to recognize their rights?
200
These were Americans who believed that the colonists had the right to govern themselves.
Who were Patriots?
200
After the French and Indian War, colonists wanted to expand and move west. However, brutal encounters with the Native Americans resulted in many colonists losing their lives when they did attempt to make this move. This was King George's solution to the problem.
What is the Proclamation of 1763 which forbad colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains?
200
The Townshend Act and the Tea Act were opposed by most colonists because they saw it as this.
What is Taxation without Representation.
200
The Boston Tea Party occurred in protest of this.
What is the Tea Act?
200
This is how King George III responded to the request of the First Continental Congress.
What is he refused to answer their message?
300
These were colonists who were loyal to England.
Who were Loyalists?
300
In 1744 this war began between England and France. They were fighting over this valuable piece of land in North America.
What is French and Indian War? What is the Ohio River Valley?
300
Colonists were exasperated with all of the laws and taxes forced upon them by Britain. On March 5, 1770, a noisy mob began throwing rocks and ice balls at the British soldiers who were standing guard in front of the Boston Customs House. It ended with 5 colonists being shot and killed. This is the name of that encounter.
What is The Boston Massacre?
300
To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed this.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
After King George's reaction to the message sent by the First Continental Congress, the colonists felt they had no other choice but to come to blows with the British soldiers. The first battles between the colonists and the British occurred here.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
This is the law passed by Parliament that forced colonists to pay a tax on all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
To force the colonists to pay for the British army sent to the colonies to protect them, the Townshend Act was passed by Charles Townshend in 1767. This Act required the colonists to do this.
What is pay a tax on common goods such as glass, paint, paper, and tea.
400
During the Boston Tea Party this was thrown off the British ships docked in the harbor.
What is 90,000 pounds of tea.
400
The Intolerable Acts did not force the colonists to behave as King George hoped it would. Instead it did this.
What is united the colonists against England?
400
The clashes between the colonists and the British proved that the colonists were willing to do this.
What is fight for the right to govern themselves?
500
The British East India Company had total control over the tea trading industry in the colonies. This total control is known as this.
What is a monopoly?
500
These are the three most important effects of the French and Indian War.
What is 1. Gave huge amounts of land to England? 2. Colonists didn't need as much protection against the French in Canada? 3. Colonists had to pay tax to pay off war debt?
500
Stunned by the colonists behavior during the Boston Tea Party, Parliament decided to punish the colonists by passing the Intolerable Acts. These were the four different laws of the Intolerable Acts.
What is 1. Closed Boston Harbor? 2. Placed government of Massachusetts under British control 3.British soldiers accused of murder would be tried in England? 4. More troops sent to colonies to enforce new laws?
500
These are the three main reasons why the Patriots favored independence from England.
What is 1. they were restricted from claiming land in Ohio River Valley due to the Proclamation of 1763? 2. the Quartering Act forced them to house soldiers and give them supplies? 3. Taxation without representation which colonists felt was against their rights as citizens?
500
These are the three main reasons why Loyalists were not in favor of independence from England.
What is 1. they liked the security of being ruled by England an established powerful government? 2. some had strong financial ties to Britain? 3. they didn't believe America could win a war against Britain?