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# Questions and Answers Regarding the French and Indian War and Subsequent Acts **15. What was a major concern for the British at the end of the French and Indian War?** * Their relationship with Native Americans * Their relationship with France * Their war debt * Their ability to trade with forei...

# Questions and Answers Regarding the French and Indian War and Subsequent Acts **15. What was a major concern for the British at the end of the French and Indian War?** * Their relationship with Native Americans * Their relationship with France * Their war debt * Their ability to trade with foreign nations **16. What does "No taxation without representation!" mean?** The colonists should not be taxed by the British government without having representatives in the British Parliament. **17. Describe the following acts/events:** * **French and Indian War:** A conflict between Great Britain and France, involving fighting with Native Americans. Ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. * **Proclamation of 1763:** Declared the land west of the Appalachian Mountains as Native American territory. * **Sugar Act:** A British law passed in 1764, imposing a tax on foreign refined sugar. * **Stamp Act:** A British law passed in 1765, requiring colonists to pay a tax on certain documents. * **Writs of Assistance:** Allowed British officials to search colonial homes and businesses without specific reason or evidence. * **Townshend Acts:** A series of taxes on items such as glass, lead, paint, and tea. * **Tea Act:** Reduced the tax on British imported tea, giving British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea. American colonists planned to boycott tea. * **Boston Tea Party:** Colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act. * **Intolerable Acts:** Four laws passed by the British in 1774 to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party. **18. Give an example of something the following people would say:** * **Patriot:** "Onward to revolution and freedom! We need to separate from England and be independent!" * **Loyalist:** "We all need King George and England to survive. Do not heed the rabble who scream 'revolution' - they don't have your best interests at heart." * **Neutralist:** "I don't pick and choose sides. My opinion will change depending on which side will get me money..."