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What is the tea act?
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to help the British most important companys
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what did the tea act do?
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1# it lowered the price of tea but kept the tea tax.2# gave the east Indian tea company a British tea monopoly3# prevented colonial merchants from selling dutch tea.
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what was colonial reaction to the tea act?
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1# they stop east Indian ships from unloading tea2# dumped the tea.
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what prompted there enactment of the intolerable acts?
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they were Britain's response to the Boston tea party
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what did TIA do?
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1#closed the port of Boston2# increased the powers of the royal governor3# decreased the power of the colonists4# strengthen Quartering act.
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what did the Quebec act do?
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2# took away western land
2#blocked colonies from moving west |
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what was the first continental congress?
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a meeting in Philadelphia in September and October of 1774 to decide what to do next.
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what did the FCC do?
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demanded parliament repeal the TIA also declared the colonists have a right to tax and govern themselves also declared the colonist had a right to start training militias and boycott British goods.
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:end TIA.
:tax govern themselves. :militias. :and boycott |
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what was Britain's reaction to the FCC?
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Britain chose to use: force to restore its authority
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who road to warn the Minuit men that the British were coming
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Paul Revere
William Dawes |
PW
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wear was the first shot fired?
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Lexington MA
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how many British solders were killed and wounded?
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300 soldiers
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who were the Minuit men?
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citizen solders who can be ready to fight at a Minuit"s notice.
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