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Causes of A R
Causes of the American Revolution
Question | Answer |
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When was the Boston Massacre? | March 5, 1770 |
What were the Colonists doing to the British | Harassing them with snowballs |
How did an inaccurate engraving of what happened after the Boston Massacre | Paul Revere |
Boston Tea party was a protest of what group | Sons of Liberty |
What company had the monopoly and had the tea in the harbor | East India Company |
Sons of liberty dressed as what | indians |
Happened on what date | December 16, 1773 |
Coercive or intolerible acts happened because of what | Boston Tea Party |
3 Coercive acts | .Boston port act, closed Boston ports .Massachusetts act, Put down the Boston Government and appointed British . The Administration of Justice Act, made British not be able to be trialed in colonies |
2 Coercive Acts | The Quartering acts, Colonists had to house British Later added to coercive acts, replace colonists afficaaills with british |
first continental Congress met because? | in response to coercive acts |
two colonists from every colony but Georgia met because of | First continental congress |
First continental congress met in | Philadelphia |
After the First continental Congress they had completed in doing? | Sending a peace letter to the King which he didn't read, and telling the colonists to keep boycotting the British |
Tax on all papers, playing cards, letters, everything | Stamp act |
British started doing these cause they were tight for money | Taxes |
caused Boston tea Party | Tea tax |
Townshend acts taxed | Paper, glass, paint, oil, and most importantly tea |
Tea tax taxed? | tea |
Battle of Lexington and concord were the first battle of the | american revolution |
British troops left Boston to capture who and what | To capture ammo cache at concord and John Hancock and Sam Adams |
Who warned colonists about approaching BRitish | Paul Revere and William Dawes |
British won the battle of | Lexington |
Colonists won | the conflict |
Were Adams and Hickok caught, what happened to colonist cache | no they were warned and got away, colonists hid cache |
minute men (militia) kept driving driving the British back to | Boston |
What side lost 73 men and had 174 wounded | British |
formed to help deal with war | Second Congressional Congress |
Formed small groups to deal with foreign affairs | Second congressional Congress |
Second congressional congress formed this to fight British | Continental army |
Continental army appointe general | George Washinginton |