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Unit 7: Chapter 3

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  • What specific event started the fighting of the Revolutionary War?
    The shot heard around the world.
  • What do you call protesting by refusing to buy, use or participate in something?
    Boycott
  • What famous phrase did historians believe Paul Revere shouted as he warned the minutemen army.
    The British are coming!
  • What is the Boston Port Act?
    Closing of the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea.
  • What two battles were fought at the start of the Revolutionary war?
    The Battle of Lexington and Concord.
  • Who was the lawyer who said the famous words, "give me liberty or give me death".
    Patrick Henry
  • Who was the famous colonist who warned the minutemen that British soldiers were planning an attack?
    Paul Revere
  • How did the British people and government respond to the news of the Boston Tea Party?
    They were shocked and angry
  • What is the Quartering Act?
    Colonists had to house and provide supplies to British soldiers.
  • What war caused the British to go into massive debt?
    The French and Indian War?
  • What event left 5 people killed and created greater tension between the colonists and the British?
    The Boston Massacre
  • What did the people of Massachusetts call these new unfair laws passed by the British?
    The Intolerable Acts
  • What name was given to the protesters of the Stamp Act in Boston?
    The Sons of Liberty.
  • What was the name of the group of colonial representatives who met together in Philadelphia in response to the trouble in Boston?
    The First Continental Congress
  • What was the event where colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor called?
    The Boston Tea Party
  • How did British Parliament punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party?
    They implemented a series of new laws such as the Boston Port Act and Quartering Act
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