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  • The French lost all their ___________ in North American after they lost the French and Indian War.
    land
  • What two groups were fighting in the Boston Massacre?
    British/Red Coats and the colonists
  • The Stamp Act taxed all ___________ items.
    paper
  • 342 crates of tea were toosed into the _______________ as an act of rebellion in the Boston Tea Party.
    Boston Harbor
  • Who helped the French fight during the French and Indian War?
    Native Americans
  • Who formed the first Committee of Correspondence?
    Samuel Adams
  • What did the minutemen do as the British soldiers were leaving Concord?
    Attacked and killed 250 Red Coats from many hiding places.
  • Why were the Commitees of Correspondence formed?
    To discuss how each of the colonies were handling the British.
  • Result of the 1st Continental Congress
    Taxation without representation was unfair and needs to change.
  • Two countries that claimed land in the Ohio Valley.
    France and England
  • Colonists were angry about the Tea Act because England gave the East India Company a _________ on tea sales in the colonies.
    monopoly
  • Who made the announcement about the Proclamation of 1763?
    King George III
  • Colonists did not want to pay extra money for the tax on sugar, but there was something even bigger that bothered them. What was it?
    Taxation without representation
  • Townshend Acts placed taxes on these items:
    glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea
  • How did the colonists rebel against the Townshend Acts?
    Boycott British items
  • Why did England create the Coercive Acts?
    To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
  • Name 3 of the Coercive/ Intollerable Acts.
    1. Closed down Boston Harbor 2. Massachusetts legislature no longer allowed to meet. 3. Quartering Act
  • The broken up snake made by Ben Franklin encouraged the colonists to ____________ together agained the French.
    join
  • Why were the Battles of Lexington and Concord important?
    Beginning of the American Revolutionary War
  • Why were the British marching to Concord other than to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock?
    Destroy colonial weapons
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