road to revolution

Question 1

A conflict between Britain and France in North America, part of a larger global war (the Seven Years’ War). It was important because it led to British debt and increased taxes on the colonies, sowing discontent

Answer 1

French and Indian War

Question 2

A British decree that forbade American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans, frustrating many colonists.

Answer 2

Proclamation of (1763)

Question 3

A British law that taxed printed materials in the colonies, such as newspapers and legal documents, igniting widespread protest under the slogan “no taxation without representation.”

Answer 3

Stamp Act (1765)

Question 4

A law that required American colonists to house and supply British soldiers, further increasing tensions between the colonies and the British government.

Answer 4

Quartering Act

Question 5

A series of British laws placing taxes on goods like tea, paper, and glass. These acts led to boycotts and increased colonial resistance.

Answer 5

Townshend Acts (1767)

Question 6

A deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston, where five colonists were killed. It fueled anti-British sentiments.

Answer 6

Boston Massacre

Question 7

A protest in which American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose the Tea Act, which taxed tea imported into the colonies.

Answer 7

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Question 8

A series of punitive laws passed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party, aimed at tightening British control over the colonies, especially Massachusetts.

Answer 8

Intolerable Acts

Question 9

A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies to discuss responses to British policies. It marked the first coordinated effort by the colonies to resist British rule.

Answer 9

First Continental Congress

Question 10

The first battles of the American Revolutionary War, where British troops attempted to seize colonial arms, sparking armed resistance.

Answer 10

Lexington and Concord

Question 11

Colonists who supported independence from Britain and were willing to fight for their rights and freedoms.

Answer 11

Patriots

Question 12

Colonists who remained loyal to the British crown and opposed the Revolution.

Answer 12

Loyalists

Question 13

A form of protest in which people refuse to buy or use goods or services from a particular source, such as the colonial boycotts of British goods.

Answer 13

Boycott

Question 14

Information, especially biased or misleading, used to promote a political cause, such as the depiction of the Boston Massacre by Patriot leaders to rally anti-British sentiment.

Answer 14

Propaganda

Question 15

A secret organization of American colonists formed to oppose British policies, known for organizing protests, including the Boston Tea Party.

Answer 15

Sons of Liberty

Question 16

The document, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, in which the American colonies declared their independence from Britain.

Answer 16

Declaration of Independence

Question 17

Cruel and oppressive government or rule, often used by colonists to describe British control over the colonies.

Answer 17

Tyranny