eQuizShow
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