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Question | Answer |
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Writs of assistance | allowed British custom officers to search homes for smuggled goods |
Act that gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants | Tea Act |
Act that lowered the taxes on molasses | Sugar Act |
Prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
Law that banned town meetings in New England | Intolerable/Coercive Acts |
Act that taxed colonists without their consent | Stamp Act |
Townshend Acts | Act that taxed goods being imported to the colonies |
Act that stated Parliament had the right to tax colonists | Declaratory Acts |
Number of citizens killed in the Boston "Massacre" | Five |
The colonists called the Coercive Acts because | Because they were unbearable and painful. |
1) banned town meetings 2) closed Boston Harbor 3) Made the colonists house soldiers were all part of what Act? | The Coercive/Intolerable Acts |
the boycott of goods or the Boston Massacre helped repeal what Act? | Townshend Acts |
An organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies was called | the Committee of Correspondence |
The Boston Massacre is an example of | propaganda |
Three | number of laws found in the Coercive/Intolerable Acts |
What did the Colonists call the Boston soldiers? | redcoats |
Law that created a government for Canada and extended its territory south all the way to the Ohio River | Quebec Act |
King of England during the American Revolution | King George III |
George Grenville | England's Prime Minister who tried to stop the smuggling. |