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This trade route connected the Americas, Africa, and Great Britain.
What is Triangular Trade?
This was the area France and England fought over in the 1750s.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This act taxed printed paper like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This protest involved refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
These laws punished Boston after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These types of goods were exported from the colonies to England.
What are raw materials?
This famous American fought for the British during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
This act taxed imported items such as paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This protest involved writing formal complaints to the British government.
What are petitions?
The first fighting of the American Revolution happened here.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
These types of goods were imported to the colonies from England.
What are manufactured goods?
This plan, created by Benjamin Franklin, called for the colonies to unite for defense.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This law required colonists to provide housing and food for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
To resist the Tea Act, American colonists carried out this major protest in Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
After the Intolerable Acts, colonists began organizing these local fighting groups.
What are militias?
This was the forced voyage of enslaved people imported from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War in 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
This act angered colonists because they felt tricked into accepting British taxation.
What is the Tea Act?
This event was exaggerated by Paul Revere to create anti-British feelings in the colonies.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This meeting brought colonial leaders together to decide how to respond to British punishment.
What is the First Continental Congress?
These laws controlled what the colonies could import and export and who they could trade with.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Explain how the French and Indian War changed the relationship between Great Britain and the colonies.
What is that Britain went into debt and began taxing the colonies?
This law restricted colonial movement and settlement after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Colonists believed British taxes were unfair for this reason.
What is that they had no representation in Parliament?
This phrase describes the moment when the American Revolution officially began.
What is “The Shot Heard ’Round the World”?