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SS 5-2
SS Section 5-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did the redcoats set up camps in Boston? | The protests such as Liberty that the colonists did worried the British |
| Why did the colonists feel as if the British pushed them too far? | The troops were stationed in the center of the city, acted rude and violently toward the colonists, and competed off-hours for jobs that Bostonians wanted |
| When did the Boston Massacre take place? | March 5, 1770 |
| What was the Boston Massacre? | The tragic encounter with the soldiers called "redcoats", the tension finally broke out between the redcoats and colonists |
| Who was Crispus Attucks? | A dockworker who was part African, part Native American, who died in the Boston Massacre |
| What is propaganda? | Information designed to influence opinion |
| What two men helped change the opinion of the colonists negatively toward the British using propaganda? | Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere |
| Why did Parliament repeal all the Townshend Acts except on tea? | The Boston Massacre led many colonists to call for stronger boycotts on British goods, which worried the British |
| In 1772, who set up a committee of correspondence? | Samuel Adams |
| What was the committee of correspondence? | an organization used in earlier protests that circulated writings about colonists' grievances with Britain |
| What was the Tea Act of 1773? | It gave the British East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes usually placed on tea |
| Why did colonial merchants call for a new boycott of British goods? | The argued that the Tea Act was just another way for Britain to crust the colonies' liberty |
| When was the Boston Tea Party? | December 16, 1773 at midnight |
| What was the Boston Tea Party? | A group of men (Sons of Liberty) who dressed as Mohawks boarded the British ships full of tea and threw 342 chests full of tea overboard |
| What were the Coercive Acts passed in 1774? | Harsh laws passed by Britain intended to punish people of Massachusetts for their resistance of the Boston Tea Party, and closed Boston Harbor |
| What was the Quebec Act? | It set up a permanent government for Quebec and granted religious freedom to French Catholics, also called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists |
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