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Causes of the AR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| requires colonists to pay a stamp on paper products | Stamp Act |
| refusing to buy certain items | Boycotting |
| tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea | Townshend Acts |
| allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
| gave a monopoly on the tea in the colonies to the East India Company | Tea act |
| Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor | Boston tea party |
| skirmish between British soldiers and colonists that resulted in the death of 5 colonists. Two British soldiers were found guilty of man slaughter. | Boston massacre |
| A series of punishments the colonist were put through | Coercive Acts |
| who warned the colonists of the redcoats | Paul Revere and William Dawes |
| why were the british marching on concord | It was the base of all their supplies |
| Who won the battle of lexington | British |
| What happened when the British retreated | the minutemen were on their tails the whole time |
| Who won the battle at concord | Colonists |
| boycott, prepare milita to fight, and wrote letter to king | desicions of the first continenetal Congress |