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French and Indian War
Colonists Speak Out
Important People
Disagreements Grow
Miscellaneous
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This was the major cause of the French and Indian War.
What is France and Britain claimed the same lands in North America?
100
This means a voice in one's government.
What is representation?
100
He was the commander in chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
This happened on July 4, 1776, that makes it such an important date in American history.
What is Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence?
100
This is how the colonists protested British imperial policies.
What is they wove their own cloth / boycotted British goods / chased British tax collectors out of their towns / organized protests / sent petitions to Parliament / formed militias?
200
This is what the British government did to help pay the costs of the war.
What is passed new tax laws for the colonies?
200
This is how many colonists protested the taxes placed on British goods.
What is they refused to buy British goods?
200
He was the main author of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This was the first plan of government for the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
This is why the First Continental Congress meet in 1774.
What is to decide how to respond to British policies and actions?
300
The was the location of the first battle of the war.
What is Fort Necessity?
300
This is how the Committees of Correspondence helped the colonists fight British rule.
What is they spread information quickly?
300
He organized the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston and was thought by many people to have planned the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
This is one effect that the Articles of Confederation had onthe new nation.
What is the states were held together as a nation during the Revolutionary War?
300
This is what the First Continental Congress did.
What is sent a petition to the king stating the colonists' rights / agreed to stop most trade with Britain / asked the colonies to form militias?
400
This is the area of land that the French and British were fighting over.
What is the Ohio Valley?
400
This is what the Proclamation of 1763 said.
What is that all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains was set aside for Native Americans?
400
He was the head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation.
Who is John Dickinson?
400
This is when the British realized that fighting the colonists would not be easy.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
These were the effects of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What is proved to the British that the colonists would be difficult to defeat / angered British leaders / King George III promised to crush the colonial rebellion?
500
They won the French and Indian War.
What is Britain?
500
This is why the battles at Lexington and Concord were important.
What is they marked the beginning of the American Revolution?
500
He called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain.
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
500
This is how the colonists reacted to the Proclamation of 1763.
What is they ignored it and settled on the lands anyway?
500
This is what "... Governments are instituted (formed) among Men, deriving (getting) their just powers from the consent of the governed." means.
What is people are responsible for starting governments, and governments get their power to rule from the agreement of the people?