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To cancel a law.
What is repeal?
I am the English thinker who said people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.A) Thomas Paine B) Isaac Newton C) John Locke D) Patrick Henry
C) John Locke
After the Boston Massacre, Parliament repealed all the Townshend taxes except the tax on this drink.
What is tea?
The First Continental Congress met in this Pennsylvania city.
What is Philadelphia?
Britain owed a lot of money after the war, so it did this to the colonists.
What is taxed them?
A group of ordinary citizens who fight as soldiers.
What is a militia?
I am the Ottawa chief who fought the British in 1763.
A) Pontiac B) Paul Revere C) William Pitt D) Patrick Henry
A) Pontiac
The Sugar Act was a tax on sugar and this thick, sweet syrup
What is molasses?
In 1776 Washington put cannons on high ground above this city, and the British left.
What is Boston?
Colonists boycotted British goods, so Parliament did this to the Stamp Act in 1766.
What is repealed it?
Not taking either side in a conflict.
What is neutral?
I led the Boston protests and put up posters about the Boston Massacre.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This 1766 law said Parliament could make laws for the colonies “in all cases.”
A) Stamp Act B) Sugar Act C) Declaratory Act D) Proclamation of 1763
C) the Declaratory Act
Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen captured this fort by surprise in May 1775.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
Because of the Coercive Acts, the colonies held this meeting in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Fighting against a government or its rules.
What is rebellion?
I helped capture Fort Ticonderoga but later became a traitor.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
These papers let officers search for smuggled goods almost anywhere, even in homes.
What are writs of assistance?
Washington surrendered at this small fort he built in 1754.
What is Fort Necessity?
Because of the Coercive Acts, other colonies sent these two things to help Boston.
What are food and clothing?
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the preamble?
I was the king of Great Britain during the Revolution.
Who is King George III?
The Tea Act gave this British company control of the tea market.
What is the East India Company?
Franklin’s plan to unite the colonies was named for this New York city.
A) Albany B) Boston C) Concord D) Detroit
A) Albany
The British won at Bunker Hill but learned this lesson.
What is “beating the Americans would not be easy”?