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True or false, the sugar act lowered the tax on molasses that had been imported?
What is true
Cripus Attucks
A dock-worker who was part African, part Native American who layed dead at the Boston Massacre.
Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minute notice?
What is minutemen
what was the proclamation of 1763 did to the colonists?
It prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian mountains
What is a militia?
A militia is a group of citizen soldiers if fighting ever broke out, the colonies would be ready with there own armed forces
True or false, the Boston Tea Party was the colonists reaction to the Tea Act of 1773?
What is True
Samual Adams
Massachusetts radical leader who revived the Boston committee of correspondence.
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergency
What is militia
Why were the colonists especially with the tea act?
Because the tea act drive the colonial tea merchants out of business
The “bloody” massacre is a engraving by who?
Paul Revere
True or false, A militia is a group of soldiers hired from other countries ?
What is False, A militia is a group of citizen soldiers
John Adams
A successful lawyer or also Samuel Adam’s younger cousin
Trading illegally with other nations?
What is a militia?
A group of people of citizen soldiers
What year and day was the Boston massacre?
March 5th 1770
True or false, The colonist bought more British goods as a result of the Stamp Act?
What is False, they started to boycott
Patrick Henry
One of the most outspoken defenders of colonial rights
To buy goods from foreign markets?
What is import
What is a minutemen?
People that would fight in a minute notice
How many people died during the boston massacre?
5 in total 3 during the riot
2 later
true or false, the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament forced the colonists to build barracks at public expenses for the British troops to live in?
What is False, it forced the colonists to quarter troops at their homes.
Paul Revere
A colonist who rode to Lexington alongside William Dawes to worn that the British were coming
A formal expression of opinion
What did paul revere do?
In Lexington he warned that the British were coming.
In 1767 Parliament passed another set of tax laws known as the “blank” acts
Townshend acts