EL 2 Road to revolution Vocab

Question 1

started in 1754 it was the French & the Native VS the British & the Colonists the conflict was over land in the Ohio River Valley, west of the Appalachian Mountains. The British won and The Treaty of Paris ended the war.

Answer 1

The French and Indian war

Question 2

War in 1763 after the French and Indian War, where Pontiac and his people were not happy with England taking Native land; it was the cause of the Proclamation of 1763 that did not allow colonists to cross the Appalachian Mountains.

Answer 2

Pontiac’s War

Question 3

Having no money, being broke and possibly owing someone money

Answer 3

Debt

Question 4

the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented

Answer 4

Representation

Question 5

a tax for American colonists on all paper goods, dice and playing cards

Answer 5

Stamp Act

Question 6

The act of refusing to buy goods or services as a political statement for change.

Answer 6

Boycott

Question 7

Boston March 1770, British troops fired on an angry mob that attacked them. The Sons of Liberty used it as propaganda to make the colonists angry and hate the British. 5 Americans were killed including Crispus Attucks, a black man.

Answer 7

Boston Massacre

Question 8

A group led by Samuel Adams that used violent tactics to terrorize British merchants and tax collectors.

Answer 8

Sons of Liberty

Question 9

Leader of the Sons of Liberty. Cousin to John Adams.

Answer 9

Samuel Adams

Question 10

Defended the soldiers accused of murder, as their attorney, in the Boston Massacre, later to be the first Vice President and then President of the United States.

Answer 10

John Adams

Question 11

December 1773, Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor to protest the Tea Act. England closed Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for and brought over General Gage to control rebellious Boston.

Answer 11

Boston Tea party

Question 12

Closed Boston Harbor, took away Massachusetts charter, allowed the quartering (housing) of British soldiers in private homes and allowed any British official accused of a crime to be put on trial in England, not here.

Answer 12

Intolerable Acts

Question 13

First battles of the American Revolution April 1775

Answer 13

The battle of Lexington and Concord

Question 14

Met in Philadelphia in May 1775 and put George Washington in charge of the Continental Army, sent a petition of peace to King George III called the Olive Branch Petition. THEY DID NOT MAKE LAWS, but they were made up of representatives of 12 or the 13 colonies. Georgia did not go

Answer 14

2nd Continental Congress

Question 15

A gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonists in america.

Answer 15

1st Continental Congress