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Causes American Rev.
Causes Of American Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| required colonists to pay for a stamp on paper products to help pay for the French and Indian War | Stamp Act |
| refusing to buy certain items | boycott |
| tax on glass lead paint paper and tea | Townshend Act |
| allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
| Great Britain gave a monoply on tea to the East India Company | Tea Act |
| Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor in reponse to the Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
| skirmish between British soldiers and colonist that resulted in the death of 5 colonists. 2 British soldiers were found guitly of manslaughter. | Boston Massacre |
| A series of punishments Great Britain imposed on the colonists as a result of the Boston Tea Party | Coercive Acts |
| The colonsts name for the Coercive Acts | Intolerable Acts |
| This act canceled the MA charter and closed the legislature in MA | Coercive Acts |
| Held in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, PA in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts | 1st Continental Congress |
| this colony did not send a representive to the 1st Continental Congress | Georgia |
| This Continental Congress told the colonists to continue boycotts | 1st Continental Congress |
| to secure the colonial arsenal in Concord | Why were British troops headed out of Boston? |
| William Dawes and Paul Revere | Who warned the Colonists the British were coming? |
| The British | Who won the 1st battle at Lexington? |
| The minutemen shot from the roadside and killed 1/3 of the troops | What happened to the British soldiers on their way back to Boston? |
| Held in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, PA in 1775 in response to the battles of Lexington and Concord | 2nd Continental Congress |
| This Continental Congress set up the Continental Army | 2nd Continental Congress |
| a secret group of American Colonists who organized responses to British taxes and acts | Sons of Liberty |
| This Continental Congress appointed George Washingtom as Commander of the Continental Army | 2nd Continental Congress |
| This Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petiton to King George | 2nd Continental Congress |
| This Continental Congress told militias to be prepared | 1st Continental Congress |
| This Continental Congress drafted and sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to the King | 1st Continental Congress |
| This act closed Boston Port until the damages were paid from the Boston Tea Party. | Coercive Acts |
| This act decreed British officials/soldiers were to be tried in England. | Coercive Acts |
| This act began The Quartering Act which required colonists to house soldiers. | Coercive Acts |
| This act replaced Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson with General Gage | Coercive Acts |
| To relieve tension after the Boston Massacre most of these acts were repealed | Townshend Acts |
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Mary Jane Lorson
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