Transcript Jeopardy 1754-1776

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Neglect Mercantilism
Rebel
Whigs
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This Pennsylvania printer, inventor,
statesman published his famous 1754
cartoon promoting an Albany Congress
Benjamin Franklin
This Virginia planter, surveyor,
soldier was forced to surrender to
French forces in the wilderness
at Fort Necessity in 1755 marking
the beginning of the 7 Years War
George Washington
This North American Indian Confederacy
sided with the British during the
French & Indian War
The League of Iroquois
The legendary James Fennimore Cooper
novel about the French & Indian War
in colonial New York was later the
subject of several movies about heroism
on the colonial frontier
Last of the Mohicans
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
Molasses Act
These British laws were meant to
restrict a wide range of profitable
colonial shipping ventures
Navigation Acts
This Massachusetts businessman was
known as the “King of the Smugglers”
for his many illegal enterprises
John Hancock
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 Pounds
Shillings, and Pence
Dollars or Pieces of Eight
Americans were able to acquire
needed supplies as long as British
authorities did not enforce their
rigid “Mother Country” rules for
controlling their colonies
known as
Mercantilism
In 1763 to please Indian Allies from
the French & Indian War,
the British declared lands west of the
Appalachian Mountains
and this boundary line
were no longer available for colonial
settlement
1763 Proclamation Line
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
The Stamp Act
This 1767 series of taxes on a wide
range of British goods including tea
angered many American Colonists
against the Prime Minister
The Townsend Acts
This British law would bring British
Red Coat Soldiers into Boston with
the right to stay and sleep in the
homes of Bostonians
The Quartering Act
This series of laws were passed in
response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party
further angering colonists opposed to
the growing mercantilist control
The Intolerable Acts
Fearing this conquistador was
actually a returning god named
Quetzalcoatl, this horse riding,
armored, blunderbuss firing
stranger was allowed by the
Aztecs to enter their capital city.
Hernando Cortez
This conquistador arrived at exactly
the right time to defeat Athualpa and
his Incan Empire, as they were
divided in a civil war.
Francisco Pizarro
The Conquistador Balboa is believed
to be the first
European to ever see this
traveling East to West.
Pacific Ocean
This Native American uprising
in 1580 in the
old “southwest” was brutally
avenged by Spanish authorities.
The Pueblo Revolt
The Treaty of Tordesilles in 1494,
by Papal decree, divided the new
lands across the Atlantic Ocean
between the empires of Spain and
her great maritime rival…
Portugal
Jamestown survived “starving time”
with the help of local Native
American Chief Powhatan and his
teenage daughter…
Pocahontas
The Pilgrims overcame their
struggles to adapt to New World
farming with the help of this
Native American friend
Squanto
These New England wars resulted in
the annihilation and/or enslavement
of the Native Americans who once
had traded peacefully with the
Pilgrims.
The Pequot Wars
These two colonies were established
on the principle of religious
tolerance.
Maryland and Rhode Island
This rebellion in 1675 resulted in a
great shift from indentured servitude
to an increased use of African chattel
slavery in Virginia and the Southern
Colonies.
This rebellion in 1675 resulted in
a great shift from indentured
servitude to an increased use of
African chattel slavery
in Virginia and the Southern
Colonies.