2. Minutemen were members of the Massachusetts militia who were always ready to defend the colony.

3. After the French and Indian War, French Canada became a British colony.

4. The Stamp Act was an example of taxation without representation.

5. Many colonists protested the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods.

6. The fighting at Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the Revolutionary war.

7. The Sons of Liberty protested a tax on tea with an action that became known as The Boston Tea Party.

8. Crispus Attucks was a runaway slave who was killed by the British soldiers at the Boston Massacre.

9. Parliament repealed the stamp Act after it heard that the colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress.

10. The House of Burgesses, in the Virginia colony, was the first colonial legislature.

11. The colonists formed the Committees of Correspondence to keep informed about protests against British laws.

12. The Sugar Act angered many colonists because it required them to pay a tariff on goods brought into the colonies.

13. Colonists in Massachusetts felt that quartering, or paying for housing, for British soldiers was intolerable.

14. Loyalists supported the actions of the British government.

15. American colonists had to pay taxes to cover the costs of the French and Indian War.

The Proclamation of 1763

At the end of the French and Indian War, Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763. Write a one-paragraph essay explaining:

• What was the Proclamation of 1763

• Why it was passed

• How the colonists reacted to it (how they felt about it)

Trade-Offs - deciding to do one thing and having to give up something else and Opportunity Costs - what you give up to get something else

In the spring of 1777, a soldier in the Continental Army had an important decision to make. Should he continue to stay in the Continental Army and serve with George Washington in the fight for independence? Or should he return to his farm to plant crops so that his family would have food for the next year?

In making his decision, this soldier had to determine the trade-offs and opportunity costs of his decision.

What was the:

• trade-off of staying in the Continental Army?

• trade-off of going home to plant crops?

• opportunity cost of staying in the Continental Army?

• opportunity cost of going home to plant crops?

Know the reactions to the following:

• Britain wins the French and Indian War.
• The British government passes the Stamp Act.
• The British government passes a tax on tea brought into the colonies.
• The Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tax.
• British General Thomas Gaga hears that Patriot leaders and weapons are being hidden at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.