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SS Chapter 7
French and Indian War, Revolutionary War Causes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Coercive Acts? | Called the Intolerable Acts by the Americans. Blocked Boston Harbor, military general for Boston, and forced to house soldiers. Punishment for Boston Tea Party. Proposed in 1774. Started First Continential Congress as a result |
| What were the Townshend Acts? | Put a "duty" on everyday items that can only be bought from Britain, like paint, lead, glass, paper, and tea. Colonists saw these "duties" as taxes in disguise. Proposed in 1767. Boycotts and Roits as a result. |
| What was the Albany Plan for the Union? | A plan Benjamin Franklin proposed that was to unite the colonists into one self governing political unit. It was not passed then. Proposed during the French and Indian War. |
| What was the Stamp Act? | A tax on anything involving paper including newpapers, playing cards, and legal documents. Proposed in 1765. Protests, petitions, and Stamp Act Congress as a result. |
| What was the First Continential Congress? | A group of people that came from all the colonies except Georgia to discuss what the British were doing. |
| What was the Proclamation of 1763? | Said that the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Proposed in 1763 in order to keep relationships with the natives positive. Most ignored it. |
| What were the Committees of Correspondence? | Groups of people who wrote letters to spread news of colonial problems. Organzed by Sam Adams in 1772 |
| What was the Tea Act? | Gave the British East India Company a monopoly of sales of British tea in the colonies. Proposed in 1773. Resulted in boycotts and the Boston Tea Party. |
| What was the Treaty of Paris? | Ended the French and Indian War. The French gave up their claims in North America and most of their land in India. |
| What were the Navigation Acts? | Controlled trade and listed items that could only be sold to England. Proposed in 1660. Most colonists ignored the acts and smuggled goods. |
| What was Pontiac's Rebellion? | when an Ottawa chief, grouped the surrounding tribes together and rebelled against the British after the French and Indian War was over. |
| What was the Sugar Act? | Cut the duty on molasses in half, in an attempt to encourage people to pay for it. It also gave officials the right to search a building at any time with a writ of assistance. Proposed in 1764. Resulted in some protests. |
| What was the Quartering Act? | Stated that the colonists must house and feed the British soldiers. Proposed around 1767. Some people refused. |
| What was the Declaratory Act? | Declared that Britain has a right to tax the colonies. Proposed on 1766 right after repeal of the Stamp Act, mostly to save face. most ignored it because it didn't really do anything. |
| Who was John Adams? | A protest leader. He was a lawyer and believed that Parliament did not represent the colonies and as a result, had no right to tax them. |
| Who was Crispus Attucks? | The first man killed in the Boston Massacre. |
| Who was Thomas Hutchinson? | Massachusetts governor at that time. |
| Who was James Wolfe? | The British General during the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War. |
| Who was joseph de Montcalm? | French General in the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War. |
| Who was Patrick Henry? | A protest leader. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. |
| Who was William Pitt? | Appointed Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He lauched a bold strategy which turned the war to favor England. |
| Who was Paul Revere? | A silversmith that made an engaving showing soldiers firing on unarmed sitizens as a dipiction of the Boston Massacre. (Yes, we know he rode to lexington and told the colonists the redcoats were coming, but that's later) |
| Who was Samuel Adams? | was probably the most notable protest leader. He was from Boston. |
| Who was Benjamin Franklin? | An inventor who proposed the Albany Plan for the Union. |
| Who was Edward Braddock? | A British general who was killed in an attempt to take Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. |
| Who was George Washington? | A British general whose military career started when he went to take Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. He was ambushed and built Fort Necessity. |
| Who was Thomas Gage? | The military general stationed in Boston. |
| Vocab - boycott | to refuse to buy a product or use a service |
| Vocab - duty | a charge put on foreign imports |
| Vocab - militia | an army made up of citizens who serve in an emergency |
| Vocab - repeal | to do away with |
| Vocab - levy | to impose or to collect a tax |
| Vocab - cede | to give up land |
| Vocab - blockade | to block off by ships or troops to prevent supplies from reaching it |
| Vocab - revenue | money |
| Vocab - propaganda | to tell one side of a story or issue to win support for a cause |
| Vocab - monopoly | complete control |
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