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This Pennsylvania printer, inventor,statesman published his famous 1754 cartoon promoting an Albany Congress
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
This North American Indian Confederacysided with the British during theFrench & Indian War
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
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
These British laws were meant to restrict a wide range of profitable colonial shipping ventures
This Massachusetts businessman was known as the “King of the Smugglers”for his many illegal enterprises
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
Americans were able to acquire needed supplies as long as British authorities did not enforce theirrigid “Mother Country” rules for controlling their coloniesknown as
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
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
This 1767 series of taxes on a wide range of British goods including tea angered many American Colonists against the Prime Minister
This British law would bring British Red Coat Soldiers into Boston with the right to stay and sleep in the homes of Bostonians
This series of laws were passed in response to the 1773 Boston Tea Partyfurther angering colonists opposed to the growing mercantilist control
This Boston lawyer defended the British soldiers of the Boston Massacre beforelater appealing for a Declaration of Independence
This former Boston tax collector and failure in the brewing businesswas the “Penman of the Revolution”helping organize Committees of Correspondence
This Virginia lawyer famously declared, “Give me liberty or give me death!”
This Boston silversmith and engraver is most famous for his 1770 Boston Massacre print and his April 1775 Midnight Ride
A recent immigrant to Philadelphia in 1776 he encouraged American Independence in his pamphlet“Common Sense”
In 1754 seven (7) colonies sent representatives to this meeting for mutual defense against the French and Indian forces
In 1765 nine (9) colonies sent representatives to this NY City meeting to defy the unpopular Stamp Act
In 1774 twelve (12) colonies sent representatives to this Philadelphia meeting in response to the Intolerable Acts
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
In July 1776 rebel colonial representatives in Philadelphia signed this document declaring they were united as thirteen (13)“free and independent states”