Causes of the American Revolution

Unit Question: What is Worth Fighting For?
Area of Interaction: Community and Service

The French and Indian War or Seven Years War
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1. What is another name for the French and Indian War?
2. What area of land were the French trying to take?
3. What year did the British formally declare war on the French?
4. Who became the British General in 1757?
5. What European country joined France in the war?
6. What two areas of land did Britain receive from the peace treaty in 1763?
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7. Look on the chart near the bottom of the page, and find the French and Indian War. Write down the "victor" and the "opposing" side:
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8. What did George Washington learn from this defeat?
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9. After the French and Indian War, what did the colonies want Britain to do?
10. What did the British want the colonies to do?'
11. What was the Proclamation of 1763?
12. Why did Great Britain want this Proclamation?
13. Why did the colonists not like it?
14. What did the colonists do about it?
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15. What was the Writ of Assistance