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Tensions Between Great Britain and the Colonies

French and Indian War

Question: Why did most American Indians rally with the French during the war?
Answer: The French treated them with more respect. They valued their trading relationship.

Question: Great Britain won more land. What was the large area of land north of the America called?
Answer: Canada

Question: What was the name of the land that Great Britain and France fought over?
Answer: Ohio River Valley

Question: Which country captured Quebec, Canada?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: When did the war start and when did it end?
Answer: It started in 1754 and ended in 1763.

Proclamation of 1763

Question: What is a proclamation?
Answer: A proclamation is a public announcement

Question: How many soldiers, colonists, traders died from Native American attacks prior to the Proclamation of 1763?
Answer: 2,000

Question: Because of the Proclamation of 1763, who did Great Britain gave land west of the Appalachian Mountains to?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: Which direction did the colonists attempt to move their settlements to?
Answer: West

Question: Why did parliament pass the Proclamation of 1763?
Answer: They needed a way to stop the Native Americans from attacking the colonists.

Quartering Act and Stamp Act

Question: Who treated British soldiers poorly?
Answer: Colonists

Question: According to the Quartering Act, who needed to give soldiers food, transportation, and a place to stay?
Answer: The colonists needed to provide soldiers with food, transportation, and a place to stay.

Question: What was the Quartering Act?
Answer: A law passed by the British parliament that required the colonists to provide living quarters and food to the British soldiers.

Question: Who needed money to pay the French and Indian war debt and how did they get the money?
Answer: Britain needed money so they taxed the colonists.

Question: The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay taxes on what?
Answer: The colonists had to pay taxes on all printed paper.

Boston Massacre

Question: The colonists and soldiers relations were worsened by what act of the colonists?
Answer: The colonists were fighting and name calling.

Question: What name did the colonists call the soldiers?
Answer: Lobster Backs

Question: March 5th, 1770, at the Customs House, colonists antagonized guards. Seven soldiers came to help. What is the Customs House used for?
Answer: The Customs House is used for collecting taxes.

Question: Soldiers over reacted and shot 11 defenseless colonists. How many died and how many were wounded?
Answer: There were 5 deaths and 6 people wounded.

Question: Why did Samuel Adams organize groups?
Answer: He organized them to protest against Great Britain.

Boston Tea Party

Question: Who did the colonists dress up like when they dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor?
Answer: They dressed up like American Indians.

Question: Parliament repealed all taxes except which one, which one was it?
Answer: The tea tax

Question: Parliament passed the Tea Act in which year? (Hint: it rhymes)
Answer: 1773

Question: How many chests of tea were dumped into the water?
Answer: 342

Question: Which company did Parliament authorize to import tea to the colonies?
Answer: The British East India Company.