The French and Indian War
The European name for the French and Indian War.
What was the Seven Years' War?
The territory given to Spain after France lost the French and Indian War.
What was the Louisiana Territory?
The act that taxed coffee, molasses, and sugar.
What was the Sugar Act?
The event where colonists threw snowballs and rocks at soldiers, only to be shot when one fell over.
What was the Boston Massacre?
A meeting of all colonial delegates except Georgia.
What was the First Continental Congress?
A type of ambush tactic used by native Americans during the war.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The document that was used to officially end the French and Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
What did the Stamp Act do?
A group formed to keep tabs on British injustices.
What was the Committee of Correspondence?
Dissolved after praying and fasting for those in Boston.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This leader turned the tide for the British during the French and Indian War.
Who was William Pitt?
The British government believed colonists did not help during the war and needed funds after it had ended.
What was the reason Britain taxed the Colonists?
The rights given to British customs officials to check for smuggled goods.
What were writs of assistance?
The Sons of Liberty dress as Indians and toss 342 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party
The punishment given by mobs to those who did not follow the Continental Congress.
What is tar and feathering?
This native American tribe helped on the French side of the French and Indian war.
Who were the Algonquins?
A document stating that colonists were not allowed to settle new western land.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The group that was labeled as a terrorist and extreme rebel extremist by Britain.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The Quartering Act was extended, royal officials could be tried in London, the Boston Harbor was closed, and colonists lost more rights to British officials.
What did the Intolerable Acts do?
The two men Thomas Gage wanted to arrest.
Who were John Hancock and Samuel Adams?
The native American tribe that helped the British during the war.
Who were the Iroquois?
All land East of the Mississippi River, Florida, New Orleans, and Canada.
What land was given to the British after the war?
The acts replacing the Stamp Act also taxed glass, paper, tea, lead, and paint.
What did the Townshend Acts do?
Only two men were convicted of manslaughter and branded on their fingers.
What was the result of the Boston Massacre?
The British were finally run back to Boston by the Minutemen a this town.
What is Concord?