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1. Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia sent this man west to build a fort where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet. Unfortunately, the French had already built a fort there, Fort Duquesne. In response, this man's party built Fort Necessity, a makeshift stockade. Later, they were surrounded by enemies and forced to surrender. Who surrendered?
2. Lord Jeffrey Amherst captured this fort in 1758. It was the most important fort in French Canada.
3. This Treaty officially ended the war between Britain and France. It was signed in 1763, and France lost most of its land in North America.
4. This drew a line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains, forbidding colonists to settle west of the line. 10,000 British troops, paid by the colonists, were sent there to enforce the law. Settlers, of course, were angered by this, and most simply ignored it.
5. These gave custom officers the right to inspect a ship's cargo without reason.
6. On the night of March 5, 1770, this happened. Five people were killed.
7. In 1774, this was Britain's way of punishing Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
8. These volunteers were trained to fight at a minute's notice:
9. The Green Mountain Boys were from this state:
10. This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War:
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