The Boston Massacre
This violent event began when angry colonists clashed with British soldiers in 1770, leaving five people dead.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This group, started by Samuel Adams, helped colonies share news and coordinate resistance to British rule.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This British law gave one company control of tea sales in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
The city in which delegates from twelve colonies met in 1774 to discuss Britain’s unfair laws.
What is Philadelphia?
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This city is the capital of Massachusetts.
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This man, of African and Native American heritage, became the first person killed in the fight for American independence.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Why were riders like Paul Revere important to the Committees of Correspondence?
They carried letters and messages between towns and colonies.
This phrase captured the colonists’ anger about being taxed without having a voice in government.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
THis colony chose not to send delegates to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
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This man represented the British officers in court after the Boston Massacre.
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What angered Boston colonists about the British soldiers stationed in their town?
They were forced to house soldiers under the Quartering Act and disliked being controlled by them.
Samuel Adams help the colonies stay united by doing this.
He organized the Committees of Correspondence so colonists could exchange information and plan together.
This group of patriots disguised themselves as Native Americans and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
What decision did the delegates make to pressure Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts?
They agreed to stop all trade with Britain.
Colonial leaders like Paul Revere use the Boston Massacre to influence others by doing this.
They spread engravings and stories showing British soldiers attacking innocent colonists to unite people against Britain.
Committees of Correspondence encourage colonists to do this in response to unfair British actions.
They encouraged protests and boycotts of British goods.
The British government did this to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What is the passing of the Coercive Acts?
Besides ending trade, the First Continental Congress took this action.
What is sending a petition to King George III demanding that the colonies’ rights be respected?