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French & Salutary IndianWar Neglect. Meaner Mercantilism. Rebel Whigs. Growing Rebel Unity. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500.

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  1. French & Salutary IndianWar Neglect Meaner Mercantilism Rebel Whigs Growing Rebel Unity 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. This Pennsylvania printer, inventor,statesman published his famous 1754 cartoon promoting an Albany Congress

  3. Benjamin Franklin

  4. This Virginia planter, surveyor, soldier was forced to surrender toFrench forces in the wildernessat Fort Necessity in 1755 markingthe beginning of the 7 Years War

  5. George Washington

  6. This North American Indian Confederacysided with the British during theFrench & Indian War

  7. The League of Iroquois

  8. The legendary James Fennimore Coopernovel about the French & Indian Warin colonial New York was later the subject of several movies about heroismon the colonial frontier

  9. Last of the Mohicans

  10. This British law was meant to limit American Colonial shipping from transporting this syrupy raw sugar product from the Caribbean Islands to New England ports

  11. Molasses Act

  12. These British laws were meant to restrict a wide range of profitable colonial shipping ventures

  13. Navigation Acts

  14. This Massachusetts businessman was known as the “King of the Smugglers”for his many illegal enterprises

  15. John Hancock

  16. Because American Colonists were not allowed to have their own banks or print their own money, this Spanish money was often used for trade in the Caribbean by American Colonists along with British PoundsShillings, and Pence

  17. Dollars or Pieces of Eight

  18. Americans were able to acquire needed supplies as long as British authorities did not enforce theirrigid “Mother Country” rules for controlling their coloniesknown as

  19. Mercantilism

  20. In 1763 to please Indian Allies from the French & Indian War, the British declared lands west of the Appalachian Mountainsand this boundary line were no longer available for colonialsettlement

  21. 1763 Proclamation Line

  22. To raise revenues to pay for British soldiers stationed in North America after the French & Indian War, the British Parliament passed this law to collect tax money levied on legal documents in the colonies

  23. The Stamp Act

  24. This 1767 series of taxes on a wide range of British goods including tea angered many American Colonists against the Prime Minister

  25. The Townshend Acts

  26. This British law would bring British Red Coat Soldiers into Boston with the right to stay and sleep in the homes of Bostonians

  27. The Quartering Act

  28. This series of laws were passed in response to the 1773 Boston Tea Partyfurther angering colonists opposed to the growing mercantilist control

  29. The Intolerable Acts

  30. This Boston lawyer defended the British soldiers of the Boston Massacre beforelater appealing for a Declaration of Independence

  31. John Adams

  32. This former Boston tax collector and failure in the brewing businesswas the “Penman of the Revolution”helping organize Committees of Correspondence

  33. Samuel Adams

  34. This Virginia lawyer famously declared, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

  35. Patrick Henry

  36. This Boston silversmith and engraver is most famous for his 1770 Boston Massacre print and his April 1775 Midnight Ride

  37. Paul Revere

  38. A recent immigrant to Philadelphia in 1776 he encouraged American Independence in his pamphlet“Common Sense”

  39. Thomas Paine

  40. In 1754 seven (7) colonies sent representatives to this meeting for mutual defense against the French and Indian forces

  41. The Albany Congress

  42. In 1765 nine (9) colonies sent representatives to this NY City meeting to defy the unpopular Stamp Act

  43. The Stamp Act Congress

  44. In 1774 twelve (12) colonies sent representatives to this Philadelphia meeting in response to the Intolerable Acts

  45. The 1st Continental Congress

  46. In 1775 thirteen (13) colonies sent representatives to this Philadelphia meeting in response to the Battle of Lexington and Concord,and they selected George Washington to lead a Continental Army

  47. The 2nd Continental Congress

  48. In July 1776 rebel colonial representatives in Philadelphia signed this document declaring they were united as thirteen (13)“free and independent states”

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