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23 Cards in this Set
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_____ act said that certain items could only be traded to England. This hurt Northern Manufators
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Triancular Trade
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_____ act taxed the importation of molassas. Colonists evaded the taxes.
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_____ of _____ closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The colonists felt a strong resentment.
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_____ act listed more goods to be taxed and enforced the molassas tax. This disrupted the colonial economy and set the stage for a revolt on the next act. There was weak protest by colonial legislators.
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_____ act required stamped paper for legal and other paper documents. Colonists began to untie, write pamphlets in opposition, riot, and boycott Britsh goods. This was the frist show of strong protest.
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_____ duties imposed taxes to pay for the war and imposed a quartering act. The New York legislature objected to the Quartering act and was suspended. Colonists effectively boycotted British goods. Mob activites began.
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_____ act was a tax on tea resulting in the burning of a ship in Annapolis and the Boston Tea Party.
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tea
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__________ _____ __________ colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea into the harbor. Loyalists became more ardent, Britain was to impose sterner actions.
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Boston Tea Party
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_____ acts were intended to punish Boston for its illegal destruction of property. Congress cordinated a protest. War broke out the next year.
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_____ __________ wrote the Declaration of Independance.
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John Hancock
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_____ _____ led the "Green Mountain Boys" in defeating the British at Ft. Ticondaroga
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Dr. __________ __________ was the eldest delagate to the Second Continantal Convention and a wise voice of counsel.
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Benjamin Franklin
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__________ __________ Presided over the Second Continental Congress.
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"Don't until you see the whites of their eyes" was a direction to save _____ at The Battle of Bunker Hill.
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gunpowder
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The "Shot Heard 'Round The World" described the importance of the Battles at __________ and __________
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The __________ __________ was perhaps an exaggerated account of British troops firing on a Boston crowd which had been taunting and throwing objects at the troops.
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Boston Masacre
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In addition to riding towards Lexington and Concord to warn the troops of the arrival of the British "redcoats" _____ __________ made a now-famous color etching entitled "The Bloody Masacre perpetrated in King Street" in Boston
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John Hancock
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__________ __________, considered a racial, led the "Sons of Liberty"
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_____ __________ represented the British captain at his trial after the Boston Masacre, was a leader of independance at the Second Continnental Congress, and became the second president of the United States.
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The date for the signing of the Declaration of Independance is considered to be __________ _____, __________ (month, day, year)
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SHORT ESSAYS:
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only choose five to answer!
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Justify of critisize how colonial leaders used the Boston Masacre to their advantage?
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They used the Boston Masacre to scare the colonists into revoloting against the British. By exaggerating what happened, and slanting the truth, the colonists became enraged and gave their support first to Boston, and finally to the revoloution.
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Explain why the gunfire at Lextington and Concord is reffered to as the "Shot Heard 'Round The World" and trace the British reaction and the effect of it on the First Continental Congress.
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The shot was not literally heard round the world, but the world came to know about the rebelion. It marked the start of the Revolutionary War. Congress sent the Olive Branch Petiton in which they declared their loyalty to the king and asked him to repeal the Intollerable Acts. Britain refused and went to war aggainst the rebel colonists.
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