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Road To War
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100
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
The Sons of Liberty used propaganda about this March 5, 1770, event to arouse resistance to British authority when five colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the rebels.
Who are the Patriots?
100
The purpose of the Quartering Act.
What is to provide housing and supplies to British troops?
100
This famous group was created to oppose British policies.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
200
This act, passed by Parliament, was a tax on trade goods such as sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
This man, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, led opposition to the Townshend Acts.
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
During the Revolution, these were the people who sided with the British.
Who are the Loyalists?
200
The First Continental Congress was a key step in American history because...
What is it was the first step towards an independent government?
200
The first battles of the Revolutionary War took place in these two towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
300
Parliament passed this to raise money to help pay for the cost of defending the colonies and it was required on all official documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This man was a lawyer and defended the redcoats involved in the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
300
These laws were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists, but were called this name by the British.
What are the Coercive Acts?
300
The role the Sons of Liberty played in the fight for liberty for the colonists.
What is staging both peaceful and violent protests?
300
The main difference between the Sugar and the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act DIRECTLY taxed the colonists.
400
This act gave the British complete and total control over the colonists.
Who is the Declaratory Act?
400
The Sons of Liberty dressed up as these when they decided to rebel against the British Tea Act.
What are Native Americans?
400
This man became famous for spreading the word about the British troops' movements.
Who is Paul Revere?
400
The significance of the Stamp Act Congress was...
What is the colonists came together to protest the Stamp Act?
400
The practice colonists used to get Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
What is a boycott?
500
After 1763, British soldiers were stationed in the colonies to keep the peace between these two groups.
Who are the colonists and Native Americans?
500
This event happened as a response to the Tea Act. The cargoes of British ships were thrown overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
These members of the militia were trained to be ready at a moment's notice.
Who are the Minutemen?
500
The colonists dumped this many chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is 342 chests of tea?
500
The three provisions or rules of the Intolerable Acts.
What are: 1) closing the port of Boston 2) Committees of Correspondence were banned 3) Accused British officials were put on trial in Britain