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British Laws Colonial Protest Laws II People of Note Rights!Wild Card 100100a100100a100100a100100a100100a100100a 100100b100100b100100b100100b100100b100100b 100100c100100c100100c100100c100100c100100c 100100d100100d100100d100100d100100d100100d 100100e100100e100100e100100e100100e100100e
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Wild Card: 100a What happened to French colonists after the Treaty of Paris? Many of them remained in the former French colony.
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Wild Card: 100Wild Card: 100b Identify the city where the First Continental Congress met and name 2 delegates from Massachusetts. Philadelphia -- Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, John Hancock (1775)
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Wild Card: 100Wild Card: 100c Why were each of the following natural features important in 1763? The Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains The Mississippi became the western boundary of British territory (Treaty of Paris), and the Appalachians were the western limit to colonial expansion (Proc. of 1763).
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Wild Card: 100Wild Card: 100d Who proposed the colonies should unite in 1754 and what was the name of the plan? Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union
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Wild Card: 100Wild Card: 100e Who led the Native American war against the British after the Treaty of Paris? Pontiac (leader of the Ottawa)
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Rights: 100Rights: 100a Colonists believed both the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts violated this English right. Right to a say in one’s taxes
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Rights: 100Rights: 100b The 2 nd Amendment right to own a gun in the US Bill of Rights dates to the colonial era. What were the Massachusetts militia men called who helped inspire this right? Minutemen
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Rights: 100Rights: 100c The 4 th Amendment protection against unreasonable searches in the US Bill of Rights was inspired by what British law granting unrestricted search warrants? Writs of Assistance
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Rights: 100Rights: 100d What right did John Adams uphold by being willing to represent the soldiers accused of murder in the ‘incident on King Street’? [Part of the 6 th Amendment in the US Bill of Rights.] To uphold the right to a defense lawyer and receive a fair trial. Adams believed strongly in the rule of law!
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Rights: 100Rights: 100e This document was the first step in English rights, and even our rights in the US Bill of Rights today. Magna Carta, 1215
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People: 100People: 100b He was in charge of all British soldiers in the colonies in 1770, and later became the military governor of Massachusetts. General Thomas Gage
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People: 100People: 100a The chief justice of Massachusetts and later Royal Governor, he upheld the Stamp Act and other British laws. Thomas Hutchinson
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People: 100People: 100c Name two groups that Samuel Adams participated in to organize resistance to British laws. 50 pts each! Sons of Liberty & First Continental Congress
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People: 100People: 100d Who had sole power to pass tax laws for the British Empire according to the Declaration of Rights of 1689? Parliament
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People: 100People: 100e Who was Christopher Seider? The boy killed in Boston a month prior to the Boston Massacre. His death inflamed the local population.
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Laws II: 100Laws II: 100a What was the purpose of the Declaratory Act? To declare that Parliament was the boss – could tax and make laws for the colonies.
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Laws II: 100Laws II: 100b Identify two parts of the Townshend Acts (50 pts each). Taxes on imported goods, suspended the NY Assembly, writs of assistance to catch smugglers.
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Laws II: 100Laws II: 100c The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763. Keep peace with Indian nations (after Pontiac’s Rebellion) by preventing colonists from settling in their lands.
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Laws II: 100Laws II: 100d Identify 2 parts of the Coercive Acts. Closed the port of Boston to trade, enforced the Quartering Act, suspended colonial and local government, imposed military rule, sent soldiers accused of crime to Britain.
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Laws II: 100Laws II: 100e The Sons of Liberty were formed as a response to what law? Stamp Act
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Protest: 100Protest: 100a The New York Assembly refused to enforce this law and was shut down as a result. Quartering Act
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Protest: 100Protest: 100b Colonial resistance to the Coercive Acts was organized by this group. First Continental Congress
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Protest: 100Protest: 100c Why was Parliament surprised by the colonial response to the Tea Act? The Tea Act lowered the cost of tea for colonists.
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Protest: 100Protest: 100d A protest to what law is commemorated by the Liberty Bowl & what was the consequence for this protest (50 each)? Townshend Acts & Massachusetts Assembly was suspended
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Protest: 100Protest: 100e How did the Boston Massacre get its name? It was from Paul Revere’s ‘Bloody Massacre’ image, to inspire more colonists to resist British authority.
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British Laws : 100British Laws : 100a “An act for granting and applying certain taxes…towards defraying the expenses of defending and protecting the colonies…for every pamphlet and paper, a tax of one penny.” Stamp Act
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British Laws : 100British Laws : 100b Regarding Town Meetings: “…no meeting shall be called without the leave of the governor.” Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
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British Laws : 100British Laws : 100c Required the colonies to provide housing for soldiers. Quartering Act
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British Laws : 100British Laws : 100d “…white glass, [duty of] 4 shillings and 8 pence…green glass,1 shilling and 2 pence…white lead, 2 shillings…painters colors, 2 shillings…tea, 3 pence.” Townshend Acts
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British Laws : 100British Laws : 100e This law imposed duties on the agricultural products produced in the Caribbean colonies. Sugar Act
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Daily Double!
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Final Jeopardy Propaganda
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Where was this image created and what was its purpose? London, to show Bostonians were out of control and to justify punishing them (Coercive Acts).
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