Revolutionary Period 3. War began in 1754 between what two nations? 4. What was the name of this war? 5. What was the Albany Plan of Union and who proposed it? 6. Which nation won the war? 7. What was the result of the war for the losing nation? 8. What was the Proclamation of 1763? 9. Why was it decreed by the British King? 10. How did the colonists react to the Proclamation of 1763? 11. To pay for the large British Army in America, the British government began to do what? 12. How did local merchants react to this new policy by the British? 15. What was the Stamp Act? 16. What did the Quartering Act do? 19. What was the Townshend Acts? 20. What was the Boston Massacre? 21. What was the Boston Tea party and why did it occur? 22. After the Tea Party what new law did the British pass? 23. Why did the colonists in Boston have such a strong reaction to this law? 24. What were Committees of Correspondence? 25. Some colonists began to ready themselves to fight. What were these local groups called? 26. Representatives from the different colonies met in 1774. What was this meeting called? 27. What happened in Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775? 28. Why were the British so concerned about events in Lexington and Concord? 29. Colonial Leaders met again in what meeting beginning in 1775? 30. What job was George Washington given by the colonial representatives? 34. This was the name given to someone who thought the colonies should be independent? 36. This was an article written by Thomas Paine to urge people to support independence for the colonies? 37. This is the formal date of our Declaration of Independence? 38. This is the person mostly responsible for its writing? 46. Name the Treaty that official separated the colonies from Britain?