CH4 The French and Indian War & the War for Independence

Known in Europe as the Seven Years War; a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by Native Americans)

• French & Indian War
• William Pitt
• Chief Pontiac
• Proclamation of 1763

During the French & Indian War - A competent British leader, known as the "Great Commoner," who managed to destroy New France from the inside and end the Seven Year's War

• William Pitt
• Chief Pontiac
• Proclamation of 1763
• George Grenville

Influential Ottawa chief who led Native American resistance to the British after France's defeat in the Seven Years War (French & Indian War)

• Chief Pontiac
• Proclamation of 1763
• George Grenville
• Sugar Act

law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains (No Ohio For You!)

• Proclamation of 1763
• George Grenville
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act

British minister (lawmaker) who raised a storm of protest by passing the Stamp Act

• George Grenville
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Samuel Adams

law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies; designed to pay for the French & Indian War

• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Samuel Adams
• Boston Massacre

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Stamp Act
• Samuel Adams
• Boston Massacre
• Commitees of Correspondence

American Revolutionary leader and patriot,

Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence;

signed the Declaration of Independence

• Samuel Adams

• Boston Massacre

• Commitees of Correspondence

• Boston Tea Party

incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists

• Boston Massacre
• Commitees of Correspondence
• Boston Tea Party
• King George III

groups created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws.

• Commitees of Correspondence
• Boston Tea Party
• King George III
• Intolerable Acts