Causes of the American Revolution | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What was the original meeting called to discuss what the colonies were to do next about King George III?

The First Continental Congress

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

July 4, 1776

Why were the colonists so angry with King George?

They were being taxed and not represented in Parliament

Why were the British marching to Concord?

To take the colonists stored weapons

What happened during the Boston Tea Party?

The colonists dumped boxes of tea in the Boston Harbor

When King George III created the Coercive Acts, what did the colonists call them?

The Intolerable Acts

Why did Paul Revere light two lanterns in Boston’s North Church?

To warn the colonists that the British were coming by sea

What did the Declaration of Independence say?

That they were no longer going to be part of England

What did colonists dress up as during the Boston Tea Party?

Native Americans

After the Stamp Act, King George put the _____________ Act in place

Townshend

Why was King George III collecting taxes from the colonists?

To pay for the French and Indian War

This act taxed any printed paper

The Stamp Act

What happened during the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

The shot heard around the world that started the American Revolution

What colony did not come to the First Continental Congress?

Georgia

When the colonists refused to go by the Stamp Act it was

Repealed

How did King George III retaliate after the Boston Tea Party?

He forced the closure of the port of Boston

When British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists killing 5 of them it was called

The Boston Massacre

What were the colonists called that were willing to fight for their independence against the British?

Minute Men

What did the colonists do during the Second Continental Congress?

Drafted the Declaration of Independence

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson