French & Indian War
The French and Indian War was fought between these two European powers.
What are Great Britain and France?
This colonial region was known for religious tolerance and was the most diverse in colonial America.
What are the Middle Colonies?
A British tax on printed materials meant to help pay huge war debt.
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What is the Stamp Act?
This group was formed Boston in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act. It spread throughout all 13 colonies.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
On March 5, 1770, tension in Boston escalated into this violent event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The global war connected to this conflict in Europe and Asia.
What is the Seven Years’ War?
In the 1750s, these improvements helped bring colonists together by increasing trade and improving communication like mail delivery and newspapers.
What are roads?
This act forced colonists to quarter or lodge British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
Protestors met under this famous spot at night to protest taxes and Parliament.
What is the Liberty Tree?
This 1773 protest occurred when colonists dumped something into Boston Harbor after the governor refused to make the ships leave.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This decisive battle saw the British defeat the French, take a major city, but both commanders died.
What is the Battle of Quebec?
During early protests like the Stamp Act era, many colonists were still proud British subjects but felt these were being infringed.
What are their legal rights as Englishmen?
These acts taxed imported goods such as glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea; those who didn’t pay could be tried without a jury.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The Sons of Liberty protested the Stamp Act by doing this to tax collectors.
What is threatening/intimidating them so they would leave?
The colonies’ unified response in 1774 after Boston was punished; 12 out of 13 colonies sent 56 delegates.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The war officially ended with this agreement in 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
At the First Continental Congress in 1774, WHO said he was not a Virginian but THIS, showing growing unity.
Who is Patrick Henry (+ American)
This 1773 act lowered the price of tea while keeping the tax, hoping colonists would buy British tea.
What is the Tea Act?
In 1772, Samuel Adams helped create this network to spread communication throughout the colonies in case they were threatened.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
The “Shot Heard Round the World” refers to these opening battles fought by Minutemen defending Massachusetts villages.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
What did the Proclamation of 1763 prevent?
This 1763 British policy barred colonists from settling west of a line along the Appalachian Mountains from New York to Georgia to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
After Boston was punished by Great Britain, how did other colonies showed unity?
By sending this aid (sheep, rice, money, corn, wheat).
Laws passed to punish Boston after the Tea Party, including closing the port and limiting Massachusetts self-government.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
He gave a speech after the Stamp Act, warning against taxation without representation. His speech was printed and distributed in multiple colonies.
Who is Patrick Henry?
Parliament closed this to punish Boston colonists under the Intolerable Acts.
What is the port of Boston?