1. Who fought in the French and Indian War?
The British and the French – each side was helped by the native Americans.

2. Why were they fighting?
Both countries wanted disputed land in the Ohio River Valley – Colonists invaded French territory.

3. Who won the French and Indian War?
The British

4. What was the name of Benjamin Franklin’s plan to join the colonies together?
Albany Plan of Union

5. Why did Britain start taxing the colonists?
They were in debt from the French and Indian War and expected the colonies to help pay for it.

6. Why did the British pass the Proclamation of 1763
Why did the British pass the Proclamation of 1763? Why did it make the colonists angry?
To keep peace with the Native Americans – Colonists were angry they won land after the war but couldn’t move into it

7. What was the Stamp Act?
Britain placed a tax on all printed material (wills, contracts, playing cards, newspapers) by requiring them to have a stamp

8. What happened as a result of Britain passing the Stamp Act?
The colonists formed the Stamp Act Congress, which sent a petition to King George.

9. What does boycott mean?
Refusal to buy a good

10. What were the Townshend Acts?
taxed imports such as paper, tea, glass, lead and paints.
Writs of Assistance allowed British soldiers to search ships or homes for smuggled goods.

11. Explain the Boston Massacre.

12. Explain the Boston Tea Party.

13. Which occurred immediately after the Boston Tea Party ?
Britain passed the Intolerable Acts

14. What were the Intolerable Acts?
England wanted to punish the colonists for destroying the tea…
Closed Boston harbor
Limited town meetings
Quartering Act

15. What was the group that formed to violently protest taxes?
Sons of Liberty

16. What group formed as a result of the Intolerable Acts?
First Continental Congress

17. Where was the “shot heard ‘round the world” fired?
Lexington

18. What happened at Lexington and Concord?
Paul Revere and others warn that “The British are coming!” They were looking for weapons the colonists were hiding.
Colonists and British meet up, guns are fired
This was the SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD because it would be the start of the war

19. Put the following events in the correct order.
Boston Massacre
Sugar Act
First Continental Congress
Quartering Act
Lexington and Concord
Townshend Acts
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act
Proclamation of 1763
Intolerable Acts
French and Indian War
Tea Act