Vocabulary
Lexington and Concord
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress
100
To feed and provide shelter
What is quarter
100
This general sent soldiers to Lexington and Concord
Who is General Thomas Gage
100
Group of people dressed up to secretly dump tea into the Boston harbor who supported separating from Great Britan?
What are the Son's of Liberty
100
The citizens of Boston were punished with these.
What are intolerable laws (acts)
100
Colonists who joined local militias and were known to be ready to fight in a minutes notice. Ready to defend in a minute.
Who are Minutemen?
200
A signed request
What is a petition
200
This number of British soldiers were sent to Lexington and Concord
What is 700
200
Where the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
200
These intolerable acts made sure local colonial government could not make laws and banned town meetings not approved by the governor.
What is the Boston Port Bill
200
The First Continental Congress decided to meet for what reasons?
What is to discuss ways the colonies should respond to the growing British threats.
300
Unacceptable; not acceptable
What is intolerable
300
This was the goal of the British when they arrived at Lexington and Concord
What is to find stored weapons and arrest Hancock and Adams
300
This group was given permission by Parliament to control the tea trade.
What is the East India Company?
300
These intolerable acts made sure local colonial government could not make laws and banned town meetings not approved by the governor.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
300
To communicate with Parliament, the colonists sent this.
What is send a petition to Parliament and King George?
400
To use warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving a port.
What is a blockade
400
These men warned the Minutemen that the British were coming.
Who are Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott
400
This is the reason the Colonists had the Boston Tea Party.
What is because they were protesting the tea tax and the control of the tea trade by the East India Company?
400
These intolerable acts said citizens must house and feel British soldiers where soldiers had to be housed in their homes and colonists must pay for the soldiers to stay in Boston.
What is the quartering of soldiers?
400
56 delegates
What is the people who attended the First Continental Congress?
500
Complete control of a product or service in a certain area by a single person.
What is a monopoly
500
These shots were the first step toward freedom for the colonists and a history making first step in creating the United States of America.
What is "the shot heard round the world?"
500
Using who, what, when, where, and why, explain what happened in the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest tea tax and the control of the tea trade by the East India Company.
500
Explain why the citizens of Boston were punished with the intolerable laws.
What is the Boston Tea Party
500
While congress waited for Parliaments response, they did this.
What is boycott goods, stop trade with Britain, started forming militias?
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