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  • After losing the French and Indian War, France _____
    surrendered (gave up) all of their land in North America.
  • Why was the Committees of Correspondence so important?
    It helped the colonies to communicate with each other more quickly and share what they were doing to stop the British.
  • True or False: The Native Americans fought only with the French against England and the colonists.
    False
  • True or False: The Townshend Acts placed a 3 pence tax on all sugar products.
    False
  • True or False: There was another name for the Coercive Acts.
    True - The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
  • Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts?
    to tighten their control over the colonies and end their rebellion- however, they did not work.
  • the colonist killed in the Boston Massacre
    Crispus Attucks
  • What did the colonists do to show the British that they did not want to pay the unfair taxes?
    The colonists protested and boycotted British goods.
  • formed the first Committee of Correspondence
    Sam Adams
  • Why did Britain want to start taxing the colonists?
    Britain was in serious debt after the French and Indian War.
  • The Proclamation of 1763 forbid (did not allow) _____________________________.
    the colonists from moving west of the Appalachians.
  • The Stamp Act was a tax on all ____________ items.
    paper
  • What were the three parts of the Coercive Acts?
    Boston Harbor was closed, the colonies did not have the right to make their own laws, and Britain enforced the Quartering Act.
  • created propaganda to unite the colonies after the Boston Massacre
    Paul Revere
  • True or False: Hundreds of innocent colonists were killed in Boston for protesting the tax acts.
    False
  • spent time in England trying to convince Parliament what they were doing to the colonists was unfair
    Ben Franklin
  • What event took place because the British ships refused to leave Boston Harbor and the colonists refused to let the ships unload their goods for sale?
    Boston Tea Party
  • defended the British soldiers on trial from the Boston Massacre
    John Adams
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