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French and
Indian War
Taxes &
Acts
Revolutionary
People
Redcoat or
Militia?
Protests
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French and Indian War $100
THIS WAS THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE FRENCH
AND INDIAN WAR
Fort Necessity
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French and Indian War $200
ONE KEY FRENCH ADVANTAGE WAS THAT THEY
HAD MANY MORE OF THESE KEY DEFENSIVE
BUILDINGS
Forts
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French and Indian War $300
THIS SIDE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF A LARGER
COLONIAL POPULATION.
The British
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French and Indian War $400
THIS NATIVE AMERICAN GROUP JOINED THE
BRITISH TO GET BACK AT THEIR ENEMY WHO
HAD SIDED WITH THE FRENCH.
Iroquois
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French and Indian War $500
THIS WAS ONE OF THE LAST BATTLES OF THE
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND MARKED BRITISH
VICTORY AS THE CAPITAL OF NEW FRANCE WAS
TAKEN
Quebec
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Taxes and Acts $100
THIS WAS A TAX ON ALL LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND
WAS PROTESTED BY COLONISTS UNTIL IT WAS
LATER REPEALED BY PARLIAMENT
Stamp Act
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Taxes and Acts $200
THIS WAS A SERIES OF TAXES ON GLASS, PAPER,
SILK, LEAD, AND TEA
Townshend Acts
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Taxes and Acts $300
THESE ACTS WERE DESIGNED TO PUNISH
THE CITY OF BOSTON.
Intolerable Acts
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Taxes and Acts $400
THIS LEGAL DOCUMENT ALLOWED
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS TO SEARCH ANY SHIP
OR HOME FOR SMUGGLED GOODS
writ of assistance
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Taxes and Acts $500
THIS ACT STATED THAT BRITAIN HAD
THE RIGHT TO PASS ANY TAXES OR LAWS
ON THE COLONIES THAT THEY
WANTED TO
Declaratory Act
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Revolutionary People $100
THIS MAN LED THE BRITISH TROOPS AT
FORT NECESSITY AND LATER BECAME A
KEY AMERICAN GENERAL IN THE
REVOLUTION
George
Washington
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Revolutionary People $200
THIS FAMOUS BOSTONIAN STARTED THE
COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE AND
COINED THE PHRASE "BOSTON
MASSACRE"
Samuel Adams
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Revolutionary People $300
THIS LAWYER AND FUTURE PRESIDENT
DEFENDED THE SOLDIERS RESPONSIBLE
FOR KILLING COLONISTS AT THE BOSTON
MASSACRE
John Adams
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Revolutionary People $400
THIS MAN CREATED A POLITICAL CARTOON
OF A CUT UP SNAKE WITH THE MESSAGE
"JOIN OR DIE."
Benjamin Franklin
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Revolutionary People $500
THIS WOMAN SHOWED HER PATRIOTISM BY
POKING FUN AT THE BRITISH IN A SERIES OF
PLAYS THAT SHE WROTE
Mercy Otis
Warren
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Redcoat or Militia? $100
USED GUERILLA STYLE FIGHTING.
Militia
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Redcoat or Militia? $200
MORE DISCIPLINED AND
PROFESSIONAL.
Redcoats
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Redcoat or Militia? $300
ORGANIZED LOCALLY WITH CAPTAINS IN
CHARGE.
militia
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Redcoat or Militia? $400
HAD COMMANDERS WITH PERSONAL
AIDES AND TEA TIME.
British (Redcoats)
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Redcoat or Militia? $500
STARTED TO SEE THEMSELVES AS
DIFFERENT BASED ON THE WAY THEY
WERE TREATED.
American colonists
(or militia)
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Protests $100
THIS IS WHAT MANY COLONISTS WOULD CRY
OUT TO DEMONSTRATE HOW THEY
THOUGHT THE TAXES WERE UNFAIR
No Taxation
Without
Representation!
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Protests $200
COLONISTS PROTESTED MANY TAXES
BY DOING THIS TO BRITISH GOODS,
WHICH IS REFUSING TO BUY THEM
Boycott
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Protests $300
THIS COLONIAL PROTEST ANGERED
BRITAIN GREATLY AND CAUSED THEM
TO PASS THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
Boston Tea Party
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Protests $400
THOUGH THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL LAW,
IT WAS AN AGREEMENT BY THE
COLONISTS TO BOYCOTT ANY GOODS
TAXED BY THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
Non-importation
Act
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Protests $500
THIS WAS A NETWORK OF WRITING
LETTERS TO INFORM DIFFERENT
COLONIES ABOUT THE WRONGS
BEING DONE BY THE BRITISH
committees of
correspondence
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Potpourri $100
IN THE TREATY OF PARIS, 1763, THIS
COUNTRY RECEIVED ALL OF THE
LAND WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
Spain
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Potpourri $200
THIS WAS A GROUP OF PATRIOT WOMEN
WHO ORGANIZED TO ONLY WEAR
DRESSES OF HOME SPUN CLOTH IN
ORDER TO BOYCOTT BRITISH
CLOTHING
Daughters of
Liberty
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Potpourri $300
THE ONLY CRIME COMMITTED BY
THE SONS OF LIBERTY AT THIS
EVENT WAS THE DESTRUCTION OF
PROPERTY.
Boston Tea Party
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Potpourri $400
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
PROPOSED THIS PLAN
WHICH WOULD UNITE THE
COLONIES INTO ONE
GOVERNMENT
Albany Plan of Union
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Potpourri $500
THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
IN 1774 DECIDED TO SET UP THESE
VOLUNTEER ARMIES IN EACH
COLONY.
militias
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Paris 1763
8 Letter
Words
Ends with
“T”ea
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Advantages &
Disadvantages
Starts with
“P”
200
Treaty of
Stupid
Answers
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Advantages & Disadvantages
$200
THIS NATION HAD A LARGER COLONIAL
POPULATION DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN
WAR.
Britain
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Advantages & Disadvantages
$400
THIS NATION HAD MORE STRATEGICALLY
PLACED FORTS.
France
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Advantages & Disadvantages
$600
THIS WAS A DISADVANTAGE RELATED TO THE
UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Red coats easy
to see
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Advantages & Disadvantages
$800
THIS GROUP WAS AT A DISADVANTAGE BECAUSE
INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE COLONIAL
GOVERNMENT, THEY HAD 13.
British
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Advantages & Disadvantages
$1000
THIS NATION HAD MORE COASTAL COLONIES,
WHICH HELPED WHEN BRINGING IN SOLDIERS
AND SUPPLIES.
Britain
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Starts with “P” $200
THIS LAW FORBID ANY ENGLISH COLONISTS
FROM SETTLING THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
Proclamation of
1763
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Starts with “P” $400
THIS TERM MEANS A COLONIST WHO WANTED TO
BREAK AWAY FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Patriot
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Starts with “P” $600
THIS PART OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
PASSED TAXES AND ACTS THAT AFFECTED
THE COLONIES.
Parliament
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Starts with “P” $800
THIS OTTAWA CHIEF LED A RESISTANCE
AGAINST COLONISTS TRYING TO MOVE
INTO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
Pontiac
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Starts with “P” $1000
THIS VIRGINIAN COINED THE PHRASE,
"TAXATION WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY," AND
SAID "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME
DEATH!"
Patrick Henry
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Treaty of Paris $200
THIS NATION WAS GIVEN ALL OF THE
LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND
CANADA FROM FRANCE.
Britain
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Treaty of Paris $400
FRANCE GAVE THIS TO SPAIN AS PAYMENT
FOR DRAGGING SPAIN INTO A LOSING WAR.
Land west of the
Mississippi River
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Treaty of Paris $600
BRITAIN WAS GIVEN FLORIDA BY THIS
NATION.
Spain
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Treaty of Paris $800
THIS WAS THE LAND THAT FRANCE WAS
ALLOWED TO KEEP AFTER THE TREATY OF
PARIS.
sugar growing
islands
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Treaty of Paris $1000
AFTER THE TREATY OF PARIS WAS SIGNED,
THIS MONEY ISSUE BECAME BRITAIN'S NEW
BIGGEST PROBLEM.
debt
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8 Letter Words $200
SAMUEL ADAMS USED THIS WORD TO
DESCRIBE THE KILLING OF 5 CIVILIANS IN
FRONT OF THE THE BOSTON CUSTOM'S
HOUSE.
massacre
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8 Letter Words $400
THESE (PLURAL) ARE ORGANIZED
REFUSALS TO BUY CERTAIN
PRODUCTS THAT WERE TAXED.
boycotts
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8 Letter Words $600
THIS FRENCH CITY WAS CAPTURED BY
THE BRITISH SHORTLY AFTER QUEBEC
NEAR THE END OF THE FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR.
Montreal
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8 Letter Words $800
IF YOU WERE WEARING DRESSES MADE
OF HOMESPUN CLOTH, YOU WOULD BE
A "THIS" OF LIBERTY.
Daughter
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8 Letter Words $1000
THE STAMP ACT ________ WAS WHEN
COLONISTS SIGNED A PETITION
CALLING THE STAMP ACT UNJUST.
Congress
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Ends with “T”ea $200
THIS ACT WAS NOT A HIGH TAX, BUT
ACTUALLY LOWERED THE PRICE OF A GOOD
BUT PUT MERCHANTS OUT OF BUSINESS.
Tea Act
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Ends with “T”ea $400
THIS PRIME MINISTER PLANNED TO
WIN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
BY FOCUSING ON NORTH AMERICA.
William Pitt
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Ends with “T”ea $600
MOLASSES WAS ONE OF THE TAXED
GOODS UNDER THIS LAW.
Sugar Act
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Ends with “T”ea $800
THIS WAS A SLANG TERM FOR A
BRITISH SOLDIER.
A Red Coat
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Ends with “T”ea $1000
THIS BRITISH LAW ALLOWED FRENCH
CANADIANS TO SET UP THEIR OWN
GOVERNMENT IN CANADA AND MOVE
TO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
Quebec Act
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Stupid Answers $200
GEORGE WASHINGTON STARTED
THIS WAR BY FIGHTING AGAINST
THE FRENCH AND SOME INDIANS.
The French and
Indian War
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Stupid Answers $400
THIS ACT REQUIRED COLONISTS TO PAY
FOR THE QUARTERING OF BRITISH
SOLDIERS.
Quartering Act
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Stupid Answers $600
THIS TREATY ENDING THE
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR WAS
SIGNED IN PARIS IN 1763.
Treaty of Paris, 1763
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Stupid Answers $800
THIS ACT REQUIRED
COLONISTS TO PAY FOR A
STAMP TO PUT ON ALL LEGAL
DOCUMENTS AND SOME
EVERYDAY ITEMS.
Stamp Act
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Stupid Answers $1000
CHARLES TOWNSHEND HELPED PASS
THESE TAXES ON LEAD, SILK, PAINT,
AND TEA.
Townshend Acts
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