Legal document that allowed British custom officials to inspect a ship’s cargo without giving a reason.

Writ of Assistance.

Proposed by Ben Franklin to create one government for the 13 colonies.

Albany Plan of Union

Letter-writing campaign that became a major form of protest in the colonies.

Committee of Correspondence

Refusal to buy certain goods or services.

Boycott

The attitude the British took towards the colonies that caused them to ignore what was happening in America for 150 years.

Salutary Neglect

What did the colonists do to protest the “Intolerable acts”?

The First Continental Congress

What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?

Unite the American colonies to fight the French.

What reason did Parliament give for raising taxes in the colonies after 1763?

Colonists should help pay for the costs of the French and Indian War.

What was the major reason for conflict between Britain and France in the Ohio Valley?

French determination to halt westward expansion by the English

What caused the Boston Tea Party?

The Tea Act

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which two European countries controlled most of the land in North America?

Spain and Britain

What was the name of the event when the colonist dressed like Mohawk Indians and destroyed British property?

Boston Tea Party

What caused the Boston Massacre?

Quartering Act

What was passed to protect Native American lands?

Proclamation of 1763

Which river marked the western border of British-controlled lands after 1763?

Mississippi

What major historic event happened in April 1775 in Massachusetts?

Lexington and Concord

What closed the port of Boston, forbad town meetings, imposed a new Quartering Act, and allowed British officials to be tried outside the colonies?

Intolerable Acts

What forced the colonists to house British soldiers?

Quartering Act

What was the name of the tax on paint, lead, paper, and tea?

Townshend Acts

The Navigation Acts were linked to what economic policy?

Mercantilism