Causes & Events
This 1763 decree banned Anglo‑American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and angered settlers.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This document was published to announce the colonies were leaving Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The group known as Regulars were soldiers for this country.
Which European country claimed the territory that is today southern Ohio and Kentucky according to the map referenced?
What is France?
Ms. Fox went to college here.
What is Wake Forest University?
During this 1773 protest, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This figure wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" that urged independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What group made up most of the colonial militias and fought locally to defend their towns?
What are Local farmers and townsmen?
Which battle or event energized anti‑British sentiment and helped pave the way for revolution?
What is the Boston Massacre?
What is Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and Germany?
This series of punitive laws passed in 1774 punished Massachusetts and increased colonial unity.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The goal of the First Continental Congress in 1774 in a few words.
What is to find a solution to conflicts with Great Britain (seek redress of grievances and coordinate colonial response)?
What economic activity (name one) was common in colonial life and helped support local communities?
Acceptable answers: farming (agriculture), fishing, trade/merchant activity, or small‑scale artisanship (e.g., blacksmithing)
Arrange these events in chronological order: Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, 1st Continental Congress.
Correct chronological order: Tea Act (May 1773) → Boston Tea Party (Dec 1773) → Intolerable Acts (1774) → 1st Continental Congress (1774, met after the Intolerable Acts).
Ms. Fox has been teaching for this many years.
What is 2?
This 1770 event on King Street escalated anti‑British sentiment after a clash between colonists and soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Name the treaty that ended the French and Indian War and removed France from much of North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Which group benefited from the Proclamation of 1763: British soldiers, Native Americans, enslaved Africans, or American colonists?
Who are Native Americans?
Based on the document, why was the map of territorial claims important for colonial unrest after the French and Indian War?
The map showed which European powers claimed which lands (French, Spanish, British) — removing French control and limiting settlement (Proclamation Line) affected who could move west and increased tensions over land.
Ms. Fox majored in this in college.
What is History?
Explain how the debt from the French and Indian War contributed to rising tensions between Britain and the colonies.
Britain had large war debts from the French and Indian War and raised taxes on colonists (e.g., Stamp Act, Townshend Duties) to help pay for them, which colonists saw as unfair taxation without representation.
Loyalists defended Britain in these ways.
What is "Britain is safer to live in than the colonies"?
What tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773 directly led to the Tea Party protest?
What is the The Tea Act?
Explain how control of land and westward settlement after the French and Indian War escalated conflict between colonists and Britain.
After the French and Indian War, Britain restricted westward settlement (Proclamation Line) but still expected colonists to help pay war costs; colonists wanted land and resented restrictions and taxes, fueling conflict.
Ms. Fox has been with her (now) fiance for this many years.
What is 7?