Road to Revolution (Coach Reeves U.S. History)

The biggest problem facing Great Britain after the French + Indian War was

• French refusal to participate in negotiations

• Conflict with the Iroquois in New York

• Massive debt brought on by war costs

• Colonists who refused to comply with new laws

This Law said that English colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

• The Stamp Act

• The Tea Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Great Migration

What group formed in Boston in 1765 to protest British taxes and laws? (The guys who planed the Boston Tea Party)

• Sons of Liberty

• Knights of Templar

• Freemasons

• Boys of Boston

What does Quartering mean?

• To allow troops to stay in your home

• Hitting someone with a quarter

• To give someone a quarter

• Giving a quarter of your earnings to Britain

The Quartering Act required _________?

• Colonists to be Catholic

• Colonists to house and feed soldiers

• You to have a stamp on all paper goods

This British tax focused on items like Molasses, which the colonies tried to smuggle from the Dutch

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

Known as Tories, these people supported the idea of the American colonies remaining loyal and under British rule

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Continental Congress

Known as Whigs, these people supported the American Colonies being independent of British rule

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Minutemen

• Continental Congress

reaffirms Parliament’s right to pass laws for the colonies w/out colonial approval

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation Act

• Quartering Act

• Declaratory Act

organization dedicated to boycotting certain British goods and promoted protests against British rule. Founded by Samuel Adams

• Continental Congress

• minutemen

• Sons of Liberty

• Loyalists