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The Boston Tea Party was a response to the passage of which British law?
What is The Tea Act
100
Which set of laws were passed to punish the colonist rather than raise tax revenues?
What is Intolerable Acts
100
Who was the leader of the secret group that played an active role in protesting the Stamp Act?
What is Sam Adams
100
Which was the first tax that affected the colonists directly because it was placed on the everyday goods they bought?
What is The Stamp Act
100
Who was the British king who wanted to punish the colonists in Massachusetts?
What is George III
200
What was the name for the civilian soldiers, who stored guns and ammunition in secret hideaways in preparation for war with Britain?
What is Minutemen
200
The British believed that weapons were being hidden in which town in Massachusetts?
What is Concord, MA
200
Which acts passed by Parliament closed Boston Harbor and placed Boston under rule by the military?
What is The Intolerable Acts
200
In which town were several civilian soldiers killed and injured when they clashed with British troops?
What is Lexington
200
In the winter of 1770, what event occurred when a group of Boston protesters gathered to intimidate some British soldiers?
What is The Boston Massacre
300
What group was established to communicate with other colonies about various threats to American liberties?
What is The Committee of Correspondence
300
Which law did Parliament repeal, because it actually hurt British merchants more than the colonists?
What is The Stamp Act
300
Which laws placed indirect taxes on imports and on tea?
What is The Townshend Acts
300
Which group met in 1774 and drew up a declaration of colonial rights?
What is The First Continental Congress
300
What vocabulary word means to cancel?
What is Repeal
400
What is the term for rule by the military?
What is Martial law
400
What is the vocabulary word for a soldier who can no longer fight due to injury, death or desertion?
What is casualty
400
What was the name of the secret group that played an active role in protesting the Stamp Act?
What is The Sons of Liberty
400
Which vocabulary word means to subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation?
What is harass
400
What vocabulary word means to refuse to buy certain goods?
What is Boycott
500
a. Which vocabulary word means to attack from a hidden place? b. Which side in the conflict used this type of attack to kill dozens of their opponents?
What is a) ambush, b) colonial minutemen
500
a) What did the Tea Act do? b) Who did it anger? c) Why?
What is a) The Tea Act gave a British company the right to all the trade in tea, b) Colonial merchants, c) because they lost their tea business.
500
The colonists argued that no one represented their interest or concerns in Parliament. They felt they should not be taxed to fund a government if it doesn’t listen to, or respond to, their concerns. What slogan did the colonist use to express this argument?
What is "no taxation without representation"
500
Which group demanded that the colonies be allowed to run their own affairs, and agreed to meet again in 1775 if their demands were not met?
What is The First Continental Congress
500
Colonists believe that only ____ had the right to tax them, because they were elected by the colonists, and they responded to the concerns and issues faced by the colonists.
What is colonial assemblies