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Causes of the A. R.
What lead up to War
Question | Answer |
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What was the Stamp Act? | A tax on paper products. |
What is Boycott? | It is when you agree to not buy things. |
Who started Boycotting paper products? | The Sons of Liberty. |
What did the Sons of Liberty Boycott? | They Boycotted buying paper products. |
What year did the Stamp Act happen? | 1765 |
The Townshend Act imposed duties on what items? | glass,lead,paper,paint,tea |
Why did Britain place taxes on these items? | These goods were highly sought after. |
How did the Colonists acquire these goods. | They Smuggled them. |
How did parliment handle the Colonists reaction? | They repealed all except tax on tea. |
What year did parliment repeal the Townshend Act? | 1770 |
What happened to cause parliment to reconsider the T. A.? | The Boston Massacre. |
How did the Boston Massacre begin? | An argument between a wig maker apprentice and a British Soldier. |
What did the Colonists react? | They threw snowballs with rocks and sticks inside. |
What did the British Soldiers react to snowballs? | They fired at the Colonists. |
Who took the heat? | 3 Soldiers were found guilty. |
Where were they tried? | They were tried in the Colonies. |
What was propaganda? | When one person telling story with one sideof it. |
What was the Boston Tea Party? | When the Colonists were dumping tea into the Harbor. |
What were the Colonists dressed up as? | Mohoccan Indians |
Who was in charge of the Boston Tea party? | The Sons of Liberty |
What were the Coercive Acts? | They were Acts so that the British could get back at the Colonists for dumping the tea. |
What were the Coercive Acts known as to the Colonists? | The Intolorable Acts |
What was the First Continental Congress? | A group of people who made Acts. |
What Colony did not show up to the First Continental Congress? | Georgia |
What date did the first Continental congress meet on? | September 5th |
What date was the Coercive Acts? | December 1st 1774 |