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THIS WAS THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR French and Indian War $100
Fort Necessity Back to Game
ONE KEY FRENCH ADVANTAGE WAS THAT THEY HAD MANY MORE OF THESE KEY DEFENSIVE BUILDINGS French and Indian War $200
Forts Back to Game
THIS SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF A LARGER COLONIAL POPULATION. French and Indian War $300
The British Back to Game
THIS NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP JOINED THE BRITISH TO GET BACK AT THEIR ENEMY WHO HAD SIDED WITH THE FRENCH. French and Indian War $400
Iroquois Back to Game
THIS WAS ONE OF THE LAST BATTLES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND MARKED BRITISH VICTORY AS THE CAPITAL OF NEW FRANCE WAS TAKEN French and Indian War $500
Back to Game Quebec
THIS WAS A TAX ON ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND WAS PROTESTED BY COLONISTS UNTIL IT WAS LATER REPEALED BY PARLIAMENT Taxes and Acts $100
Stamp Act Back to Game
THIS WAS A SERIES OF TAXES ON GLASS, PAPER, SILK, LEAD, AND TEA Taxes and Acts $200
Townshend Acts Back to Game
THESE ACTS WERE DESIGNED TO PUNISH THE CITY OF BOSTON. Taxes and Acts $300
Intolerable Acts Back to Game
Taxes and Acts $400 THIS LEGAL DOCUMENT ALLOWED CUSTOMS OFFICIALS TO SEARCH ANY SHIP OR HOME FOR SMUGGLED GOODS
writ of assistance Back to Game
Taxes and Acts $500 THIS ACT STATED THAT BRITAIN HAD THE RIGHT TO PASS ANY TAXES OR LAWS ON THE COLONIES THAT THEY WANTED TO
Declaratory Act Back to Game
THIS MAN LED THE BRITISH TROOPS AT FORT NECESSITY AND LATER BECAME A KEY AMERICAN GENERAL IN THE REVOLUTION Revolutionary People $100
George Washington Back to Game
THIS FAMOUS BOSTONIAN STARTED THE COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE AND COINED THE PHRASE "BOSTON MASSACRE" Revolutionary People $200
Samuel Adams Back to Game
Revolutionary People $300 THIS LAWYER AND FUTURE PRESIDENT DEFENDED THE SOLDIERS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING COLONISTS AT THE BOSTON MASSACRE
John Adams Back to Game
Revolutionary People $400 THIS MAN CREATED A POLITICAL CARTOON OF A CUT UP SNAKE WITH THE MESSAGE "JOIN OR DIE."
Benjamin Franklin Back to Game
Revolutionary People $500 THIS WOMAN SHOWED HER PATRIOTISM BY POKING FUN AT THE BRITISH IN A SERIES OF PLAYS THAT SHE WROTE
Back to Game Mercy Otis Warren
Famous Brits $100 THIS BRITISH POLITICIAN HAD A SERIES OF TAXES ON GLASS, SILK, PAPER, AND LEAD NAMED AFTER HIM
Charles Townshend Back to Game
Famous Brits $200 THIS GENERAL AND MANY OF HIS TROOPS WERE AMBUSHED IN THE WOODS BY THE FRENCH AND THEIR NATIVE AMERICAN ALLIES
General Braddock Back to Game
THIS KING AND PARLIAMENT WANTED TO PUNISH THE COLONISTS FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY Famous Brits $300
George III Back to Game
THIS PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN HAD A SPECIFIC PLAN TO WIN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR WHICH INVOLVED WINNING THE WAR IN NORTH AMERICA FIRST Famous Brits $400
William Pitt Back to Game
THIS MEMBER OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT SAID THAT ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO WERE SCARED TO TAX THE AMERICANS WERE "COWARDS" Famous Brits $500
George Grenville Back to Game
Protests $100 THIS IS WHAT MANY COLONISTS WOULD CRY OUT TO DEMONSTRATE HOW THEY THOUGHT THE TAXES WERE UNFAIR
No Taxation Without Representation! Back to Game
Protests $200 COLONISTS PROTESTED MANY TAXES BY DOING THIS TO BRITISH GOODS, WHICH IS REFUSING TO BUY THEM
Boycott Back to Game
Protests $300 THIS COLONIAL PROTEST ANGERED BRITAIN GREATLY AND CAUSED THEM TO PASS THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
Boston Tea Party Back to Game
Protests $400 THOUGH THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL LAW, IT WAS AN AGREEMENT BY THE COLONISTS TO BOYCOTT ANY GOODS TAXED BY THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
Non-importation Act Back to Game
Protests $500 THIS WAS A NETWORK OF WRITING LETTERS TO INFORM DIFFERENT COLONIES ABOUT THE WRONGS BEING DONE BY THE BRITISH
committees of correspondence Back to Game
Potpourri $100 IN THE TREATY OF PARIS, 1763, THIS COUNTRY RECEIVED ALL OF THE LAND WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
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Potpourri $200 THIS WAS A GROUP OF PATRIOT WOMEN WHO ORGANIZED TO ONLY WEAR DRESSES OF HOME SPUN CLOTH IN ORDER TO BOYCOTT BRITISH CLOTHING
Back to Game Daughters of Liberty
Potpourri $300 THIS TERM DESCRIBES AMERICAN COLONISTS WHO COULD BE READY TO FIGHT AT A "MINUTE'S NOTICE."
minute men Back to Game
Potpourri $400 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PROPOSED THIS PLAN WHICH WOULD UNITE THE COLONIES INTO ONE GOVERNMENT
Albany Plan of Union Back to Game
Potpourri $500 THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN 1774 DECIDED TO SET UP THESE VOLUNTEER ARMIES IN EACH COLONY.
militias Back to Game
Advantages & Disadvantages Starts with “P” 8 Letter Words Ends with “T”ea Treaty of Paris 1763 Stupid Answers
THIS NATION HAD A LARGER COLONIAL POPULATION DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. Advantages & Disadvantages $200
Britain Back to Game
THIS NATION HAD MORE STRATEGICALLY PLACED FORTS. Advantages & Disadvantages $400
France Back to Game
THIS WAS A DISADVANTAGED RELATED TO THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIERS. Advantages & Disadvantages $600
Red coats easy to see Back to Game
THIS GROUP WAS AT A DISADVANTAGE BECAUSE INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT, THEY HAD 13. Advantages & Disadvantages $800
British Back to Game
THIS NATION HAD MORE COASTAL COLONIES, WHICH HELPED WHEN BRINGING IN SOLDIERS AND SUPPLIES. Advantages & Disadvantages $1000
Back to Game Britain
THIS LAW FORBID ANY ENGLISH COLONISTS FROM SETTLING THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. Starts with “P” $200
Proclamation of 1763 Back to Game
THIS TERM MEANS A COLONIST WHO WANTED TO BREAK AWAY FROM GREAT BRITAIN. Starts with “P” $400
Patriot Back to Game
THIS PART OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT PASSED TAXES AND ACTS THAT AFFECTED THE COLONIES. Starts with “P” $600
Parliament Back to Game
Starts with “P” $800 THIS OTTAWA CHIEF LED A RESISTANCE AGAINST COLONISTS TRYING TO MOVE INTO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
Pontiac Back to Game
Starts with “P” $1000 THIS VIRGINIAN COINED THE PHRASE, "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY," AND SAID "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!"
Patrick Henry Back to Game
THIS NATION WAS GIVEN ALL OF THE LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND CANADA FROM FRANCE. Treaty of Paris $200
Britain Back to Game
FRANCE GAVE THIS TO SPAIN AS PAYMENT FOR DRAGGING SPAIN INTO A LOSING WAR. Treaty of Paris $400
Land west of the Mississippi River Back to Game
Treaty of Paris $600 BRITAIN WAS GIVEN FLORIDA BY THIS NATION.
Spain Back to Game
Treaty of Paris $800 THIS WAS THE LAND THAT FRANCE WAS ALLOWED TO KEEP AFTER THE TREATY OF PARIS.
sugar growing islands Back to Game
Treaty of Paris $1000 AFTER THE TREATY OF PARIS WAS SIGNED, THIS MONEY ISSUE BECAME BRITAIN'S NEW BIGGEST PROBLEM.
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8 Letter Words $200 SAMUEL ADAMS USED THIS WORD TO DESCRIBE THE KILLING OF 5 CIVILIANS IN FRONT OF THE THE BOSTON CUSTOM'S HOUSE.
massacre Back to Game
8 Letter Words $400 THESE (PLURAL) ARE ORGANIZED REFUSALS TO BUY CERTAIN PRODUCTS THAT WERE TAXED.
boycotts Back to Game
THIS FRENCH CITY WAS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH SHORTLY AFTER QUEBEC NEAR THE END OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 8 Letter Words $600
Montreal Back to Game
IF YOU WERE WEARING DRESSES MADE OF HOMESPUN CLOTH, YOU WOULD BE A "THIS" OF LIBERTY. 8 Letter Words $800
Daughter Back to Game
THE STAMP ACT ________ WAS WHEN COLONISTS SIGNED A PETITION CALLING THE STAMP ACT UNJUST. 8 Letter Words $1000
Congress Back to Game
Ends with “T”ea $200 THIS ACT WAS NOT A HIGH TAX, BUT ACTUALLY LOWERED THE PRICE OF A GOOD BUT PUT MERCHANTS OUT OF BUSINESS.
Tea Act Back to Game
Ends with “T”ea $400 THIS PRIME MINISTER PLANNED TO WIN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BY FOCUSING ON NORTH AMERICA.
William Pitt Back to Game
Ends with “T”ea $600 MOLASSES WAS ONE OF THE TAXED GOODS UNDER THIS LAW.
Sugar Act Back to Game
Ends with “T”ea $800 THIS WAS A SLANG TERM FOR A BRITISH SOLDIER.
A Red Coat Back to Game
Ends with “T”ea $1000 THIS BRITISH LAW ALLOWED FRENCH CANADIANS TO SET UP THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT IN CANADA AND MOVE TO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
Quebec Act Back to Game
Stupid Answers $200 GEORGE WASHINGTON STARTED THIS WAR BY FIGHTING AGAINST THE FRENCH AND SOME INDIANS.
Back to Game The French and Indian War
Stupid Answers $400 THIS ACT REQUIRED COLONISTS TO PAY FOR THE QUARTERING OF BRITISH SOLDIERS.
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Stupid Answers $600 THIS TREATY ENDING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR WAS SIGNED IN PARIS IN 1763.
Treaty of Paris, 1763 Back to Game
Stupid Answers $800 THIS ACT REQUIRED COLONISTS TO PAY FOR A STAMP TO PUT ON ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND SOME EVERYDAY ITEMS.
Stamp Act Back to Game
Stupid Answers $1000 CHARLES TOWNSHEND HELPED PASS THESE TAXES ON LEAD, SILK, PAINT, AND TEA.
Townshend Acts Back to Game