Boston massacrer
how many people were killed
what is 5 people
who was the main writer of the declaration of indipendence
what is Thomas Jefferson
Why did the British pass The Intolerable Acts?
Punishment for the Boston Tea Party
Who can you determine created the Sugar Act?
George Grenville.
the Tea Act, passed by Parliament on
what is May 10, 1773
how did it start
after months of tensions due to occupation and taxation, Bostonians and Redcoats clashed in the streets, a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770,
On what day did the Continental Congress vote to declare independence from Great Britain?
what is July 2, 1776
How did the British Navy blocking the Boston Harbor affect the New England Colonies?
what is They could not get any goods into Boston or export any of their goods to make money
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What was the Tea Act important facts?
what is waived or refunded taxes on tea shipped to the American colonies.
Who did the Boston Massacre anger
what is Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
what is to explain the colonists' right to revolution
When would the British open up the harbor again?
what is When they had paid for the tea.
Most of the writing in the Sugar Act outlines what?
, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire
Why did colonists hate the Tea Act?
what is They believed the Tea Act was a tactic to gain colonial support for the tax already enforced.
Who was the first death of the Boston Massacre and arguably the first death of the revolution
what is Crispus Attucks
What question is left unanswered in the Declaration of Independence?
what is who the "people," or the "men" are supposed to be
How do you think it affected the colonists that their legislature meetings had to be approved by General Thomas Gage?.
He probably did not allow them to meet and if he did, he listened to their meetings
How did the Sugar Act fail?
what is This tax had been routinely ignored or evaded
How did the Tea Act end
The Tea Act became a "dead letter" as far as the Thirteen Colonies were concerned, and was formally removed from the books in 1861.
How did the Boston Massacre affect the colonists?
what is incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence
how many sections does it have
the introduction, the preamble, the indictment of King George III, the denunciation of the British Government, and the conclusion
What did it mean that the colonists had to quarter the British soldiers? How do you think the colonists felt about that? Why?
They had to allow the soldiers to live in their house and to eat their food.
What did Sugar Act cause?
the earlier clandestine trade in foreign sugar and, thus, much colonial maritime commerce were severely hampered.
What was the main problem with the Tea Act?
the Tea Act was the British East India Company's government sanctioned monopoly on tea