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Causes of the AR
Question | Answer |
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requires colonists to pay a stamp on paper products | Stamp Act |
refusing to buy certain items | Boycotting |
tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea | Townshend Acts |
allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance |
gave a monopoly on the tea in the colonies to the East India Company | Tea act |
Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor | Boston tea party |
skirmish between British soldiers and colonists that resulted in the death of 5 colonists. Two British soldiers were found guilty of man slaughter. | Boston massacre |
A series of punishments the colonist were put through | Coercive Acts |
who warned the colonists of the redcoats | Paul Revere and William Dawes |
why were the british marching on concord | It was the base of all their supplies |
Who won the battle of lexington | British |
What happened when the British retreated | the minutemen were on their tails the whole time |
Who won the battle at concord | Colonists |
boycott, prepare milita to fight, and wrote letter to king | desicions of the first continenetal Congress |