APUSH Period 3 1754 - 1800

Why was the Albany Congress important?

• The principles established directly led to the Bill of Rights

• It was the first attempt to create colonial unity for its own self value

• Established boundaries of westward expansion

• Defined a plan for the House of Represntatives

The Treaty of Paris 1763 did what?

• Ended the French and Indian War

• Britain took Canada, Florida and more land

• Made the Natives vulnerable to Britain

• All of the Above

Which Native led an uprising on the British redcoats after the French-Indian war because the British were not friendly like the French?

• Tecumseh

• Powhatan

• Chief Pontiac

• Metacom

How did Americans defy the Proclamation of 1763

• They threw tea overboard

• They still moved west of the Appalachian Mountains even though it was banned

• They tarred and feathered the tax agents

• Shot British soldiers

How did British Parliament led by King George III make the colonies pay their fair share of the "costs of the empire"?

• Make the colonies fundraise

• Sell colonial lands

• Tax the colonies

• claim more land west in order to sell it

Which act that laid a tax on legal documents, newspapers, letters and even playing cards, infuriated the colonists?

• Townshend Act

• Sugar Act

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

What happened at the Stamp Act Congress?

• Agreed to support the royal British king

• Colonists united and agreed to boycott British goods out of anger

• Felt even more British

• British confiscated all stamps

What were the Townshend Acts?

• A series of acts by the British that enraged the colonists by taxing many different things

• Colonies passed these in response to Britain

• The colonists gave 4,000 troops to the British

• A series of laws enacted to relax tensions with colonists

The Intolerable Acts did what to the colonists?

• cut off the Boston Harbor to trade

• put a tax on sugar

• put a tax on coffee

• allowed them to move west and escape the British

Which even led to Britain passing the Intolerable Acts?

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

• Second Continental Congress