Forming a New Nation

Why did great Britain pass new laws or taxes  after the French and Indian War?

• To have colonists help pay for the war effort
• Great Britain was a greedy nation 
• To Keep colonist in America
• To help the french

What was the Boston Tea party?

• colonist wanted to celebrate Britain with a tea party
• The colonists dressed up and threw all the tea into the Boston Harbor
• Colonists wanted to thank the East India Trading Company
• Britain's way of telling the colonists thank you 

What was the purpose of the Stamp Act of 1765?

• To anger the colonists
• To raise money through the sale of tea
• To raise money off of documents
• To pay the colonist back for all of their efforts in the war

What does the phrase "No taxation without representation" really mean?

• The colonists should not be taxed without representation in Parliament
• The colonists should not be taxed unless the taxes are to be used in the colonies

What is the Seven Years War also known as?

• Civil War
• WW1
• French and Indian War
• Spanish Armada

What did all of the taxation encourage the colonist to do?

• tax the British
• Fight for their independence
• Vote for a new king
• burn Britain to the ground

Before the French and Indian War of 1754 what lands in North America where French territories? 

• to the left of the colonies from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico
• Along the Saint Lawrence River
• The Ohio River Valley
• Texas

What was the group called that wanted liberty for the colonies?

• Massacre Preventers
• Mohawk Indians
• Sons of Liberty
• Paul Revere's Riders

Where did the battle of Saratoga take place?

• New York
• Boston
• New Jersey 
• Georgia

Who led the continental Army?

• John Adams
• Ben Franklin
• George Washington
• William Pitt