US History Notes

Question 1

French & Indian War

Answer 1

war between British and French who both claimed the land by the Ohio River Valley which caused conflict

Question 2

Washington Fails

Answer 2

Washington attacks a group of Frenchmen. He senses a French counter attack and builds Fort Necessity, but is eventually forced to surrender

Question 3

Treaty of Paris 1763

Answer 3

ended the war and gave all French land east of Mississippi to British and everything west to Spain

Question 4

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 4

prevented colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mts to protect them from Natives

Question 5

Sugar Act 1764

Answer 5

lowered tax on molasses in hopes that it would stop colonial smuggling

Question 6

Stamp Act

Answer 6

forced colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they purchased to help repay debt from the war

Question 7

Colonists’ Reaction to the Stamp Act

Answer 7

Legislatures: state legislatures stated that they were the only ones who could tax colonists
Violence: Sons of Liberty protested through violence and attacked stamp collectors
Boycotts: refusal to buy British goods was very effective

Question 8

Townshend Acts 1767

Answer 8

Charles Townshend & Parliament: placed tax on different goods
Colonists felt that it violated their rights because they had no representation in British Parliament

Question 9

Tea Act 1773

Answer 9

British lowered the cost of tea, but colonists could only purchase it from the British East India Company

Question 10

Boston Tea Party

Answer 10

Dec 6, 1773: Sons of Liberty dumped 90,000 lbs of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
Many prominent leaders disagreed about the tea party but John Adams praised it

Question 11

Civil Disobedience

Answer 11

refusal to comply with certain laws/pay taxes as a peaceful form of protest

Question 12

Intolerable Acts

Answer 12

designed to punish Massachusetts: British closed the Boston Harbor until all lost tea was paid for