Question | Answer |
LEXINGTON | A city that had the 1st battle of the Revolutionary war |
PATRIOT | Colonists who supported Independence from Britain |
TRAITOR | A person who turns against their country |
LOYALIST | Colonists who support Britain |
BOYCOTT | Refuse to do business or buy something |
COMMITTEES OF CORESPONDANCE | Groups who wrote to each other to keep the colonist informed of events |
TREATY OF PARIS | A treaty that gave Britain all of Frances land in the Ohio River Valley and Canada |
STAMP ACT | Forced colonist to pay taxes on newspapers,pamphlets,and signed legal documents |
TOWNSHEND ACT | Laws that taxed tea,glass,lead,paint,and paper goods from Britain |
PROCLAMATION OF 1763 | Agreement to avoid a long and costly war with Native Americans |
WHAT DID THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS DECIDE TO DO? | Sent a petition to King George the 3rd |
WHAT DID MEMBERS OF THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS SEND? | The Olive Branch Petition |
WHAT DID SOME COLONISTS WORRY THAT INDEPENDENCE WOULD MEAN? | They worried that we would lose trading with Britain |
WHAT DID THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE EXPLAIN? | We wanted to be free of Britain |
WHAT TWO GROUPS FOUGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR? | Great Britain vs French and Indies |
HOW DID NORTH AMERICA CHANGE AS A RESULT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR? | The land was equally divided between Spain and England |