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Party Time Colonial Response British Action 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points VOCABGeography
The geographic barrier that prevented colonial movement westward.
What is the Appalachian Mountains
This state is on our map but not part of the original 13.
What is Florida, Maine, West Virginia or Vermont
Three of the five Great Lakes.
What is Huron, Superior, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario?
This area was fought for by the British because of its fertile soil. The French wanted it for trade.
What is the Ohio River Basin (Valley).
As a result of the French and Indian War this law was established to prevent further movement beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
This was the first act that England passed on the colonist that seemed to affect everyone.
What is the Stamp Act?
These were the colonist attempt to set self-rule or a representative governments.
What was the Mayflower Compact or Virginia House of Burgesses?
John Locke’s Theory of natural rights were later used in this document written by this man.
What is the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson
The three main reasons people came to the new world.
What are Economic, Social, and Political?
Crops grown to sell like tobacco.
What is a cash crop?
The following quote would have most likely been said by a? “Let us behave like obedient children, who have received unjust blows from a beloved parent. Let us complain with words, not guns.”
What is A Loyalist?
This system was set up by Britain to get cheap raw materials and have markets to sell finished goods.
What is Mercantilism?
The colonist responded with this action when the King imposed the Townshend Act.
What is boycott or stopped buying British goods?
These are the self governments set up by the colonist.
What are the Mayflower Compact or the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The initial reason Britain began to tax the colonies.
What was to pay for war debt ?
The colonial response to the Tea Tax.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This propaganda piece was used to gain support for colonist in Boston.
What is the Paul Revere’s Engraving of the Boston Massacre or Common Sense?
“No taxation without representation”
What is the rally cry against the Townshend Act?
They sent the King the Olive Branch Petition following this event.
Who is the Second Continental Congress after Bunker Hill?
Colonist signed this list of grievances indicating they are free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This instituted military rule in Boston.
What is the Intolerable Act.
British taxed tea and other import.
What is the Tea Act or the Townshend Act?
The “Shot Heard Around the World”.
What is the British attack at Lexington and Concord?
British reduced the tax on molasses but came down hard on smugglers.
What is the Sugar Act.
British troop lost 1,200 men but are victorious.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Make your wager
Give one grievance of the Declaration of Independence, and explain in your own words the meaning of “consent of the governed”
Cut off trade, no jury trial, taxation without representation. Government gets permission to rule from the people.