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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stamp Act | Placed a tax on paper items such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards. |
| Quartering Act | Required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers. |
| Intolerable Act | Passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. |
| Stamp Act | Placed a tax on paper items such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards. |
| Quartering Act | Required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers. |
| Tea Act | Gave the British East India Company control over tea sales. |
| Intolerable Act | Passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. |
| Tea Act | Gave the British East India Company control over tea sales. |
| Write of Assistance | Allowed British officials to search homes, ships, and buildings for smuggled goods without a warrant. |
| Taxation without representation | |
| Boycott | to stop buying or using something |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five. Paul Revere’s engraving made it powerful propaganda. |
| Parliament | |
| Taxation without representation | Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act. Disguised as Native Americans to avoid identification. |
| The Stamp Act Congress | |
| Battle of Saratoga | The British plan to take New York failed. Reasons the plan failed: Howe attacked Philadelphia instead of Albany St. Leger was defeated at Oriskany Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five. Paul Revere’s engraving made it powerful propaganda. |
| Battle of Yorktown | The Battle of Yorktown took place in 1781 in Virginia. It was the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Lord Charles Cornwallis moved his army to Yorktown, Virginia, believing the British navy would protect him. |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act. Disguised as Native Americans to avoid identification. |
| Battle of Saratoga | The British plan to take New York failed. Reasons the plan failed: Howe attacked Philadelphia instead of Albany St. Leger was defeated at Oriskany Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga |
| Battle of Yorktown | The Battle of Yorktown took place in 1781 in Virginia. It was the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Lord Charles Cornwallis moved his army to Yorktown, Virginia, believing the British navy would protect him. |
| Stamp Act | Placed a tax on paper items such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards. |
| Quartering Act | Required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers. |
| Intolerable Act | Passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. |
| Tea Act | Gave the British East India Company control over tea sales. |
| Write of Assistance | Allowed British officials to search homes, ships, and buildings for smuggled goods without a warrant. |
| Boycott | to stop buying or using something |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five. Paul Revere’s engraving made it powerful propaganda. |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act. Disguised as Native Americans to avoid identification. |
| Battle of Saratoga | The British plan to take New York failed. Reasons the plan failed: Howe attacked Philadelphia instead of Albany St. Leger was defeated at Oriskany Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga |
| Battle of Yorktown | The Battle of Yorktown took place in 1781 in Virginia. It was the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Lord Charles Cornwallis moved his army to Yorktown, Virginia, believing the British navy would protect him. |