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Road to Revolution

French and Indian War

Question: Before the war, who controlled most of the land in North America?
Answer: France

Question: Who was England's ally in the war?
Answer: the Colonists

Question: Who was France's ally?
Answer: the Native Americans

Question: The term for the Colonists fighting in the war was ______________________
Answer: Militia

Question: Why were the French and British fighting?
Answer: Over land. They also had a history of fighting with one another.

Causes/Effects of F.I. War

Question: The French and English ______________ each other before the war.
Answer: Disliked
Cause

Question: After the war, the French almost completely _______________ North America.
Answer: left, lost their land in
Effect

Question: Explain westward expansion.
Answer: The English trying to colonize to the west (which was French land)
cause

Question: The French built fortresses on British land. What is a fortress?
Answer: A military encampment, a military site
Cause

Question: Why were the colonists so angry with the British after the war?
Answer: The British expected the colonists to pay for the war by raising taxes.
Effect

Causes of the Revolution

Question: The British made the Colonists pay ________________.
Answer: Taxes

Question: _______________________ collected the taxes.
Answer: Soldiers

Question: The Colonists had no say in how they were treated by the British government. This was called __________ ___________ _________.
Answer: Taxation without representation.

Question: The colonists _________________ English goods.
Answer: boycotted

Question: The British did not allow the Colonists to ________________ with other countries, which caused them to lose money.
Answer: trade

Events

Question: Explain the Boston Tea Party.
Answer: Colonists dumped tea into harbor - ultimate boycott

Question: What were the minutemen?
Answer: The citizen soldiers that were prepared to fight at a moments notice.

Question: The document that was written to tell the British the Colonies wanted to be free was called ______________________.
Answer: The Declaration of Independence.

Question: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Explain the Stamp Act.
Answer: A British tax- they put stamps on many different goods (mostly made of paper) to ensure the tax got paid.

Vocab

Question: The colonists refused to buy British products. This is an example of a _______________
Answer: Boycott

Question: Someone who is on your side during a war is your __________________
Answer: Ally

Question: The money a government collects from citizens is a _____________________
Answer: Tax

Question: The British government is called __________________________
Answer: Parliament

Question: People choose _____________________ to represent them in the government.
Answer: Delegates