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30 Cards in this Set
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Who sent soldiers to keep the peace in Boston?
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King George 3rd
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When did the colonists throw rocks, sticks,and snowballs at the troops?
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On March 5, 1770
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Which troops fired at the colonists and killed 5 people?
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The British troops
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When the British killed 5 people it became known as what?
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The Boston Massacre
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What company was going broke so Parliment passed the tea act?
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The British east India Company
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when parliment passed the tea act it let the East India company have a what on the tea business in the colonies?
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Monopoly
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the monopoly policy made tea cheaper but prevented colonial what from selling tea?
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Merchants
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The colonists refused to allow the tea to be what from the ships in Boston harbor?
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unloaded
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The royal What said that the ships would stay until they were unloaded
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Governor
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Who and who led patriots (disguised as Na)as they threw the tea into the harbor?
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Samuel Adams and
Paul Rivere |
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the list of grievances deprived colonists of ____ trials
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jury
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The list of Grievances transported colonists back to _______ for trial
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England
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The list of grievances rejected the Olive Branch _________
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Partition
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That these United colonies are and of Right ought to be Free and independent ______
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states
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56 delagates signed the ___________
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Declaration
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King George the 3rd sent ________ to keep the peace in Boston.
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soldiers
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On March 5, 1770 colonists threw rocks,sticks, and snowballs at the ______
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troops
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Who fired and became the shot heard around the world?
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nobody knows
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Who was the 2nd president
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John Adams
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Who was the 3rd president
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Thomas Jefferson
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First Continental Congress was held in __.
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Pa.
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Which president was assassinated
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John Kennedy
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The Congress called for a _______ of all British goods.
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boycott
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The Congress also asked each colony to train a ________.
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milita
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The ________ were being stored at Lexington and Concord so they set out to destroy them.
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weapons
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Paul ______ rode through the night to warn the colonists in lexington.
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Revere
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The british Army killed _ lexington minutemen but Concord was deserted when they got there.
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8
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As the British marched back to Boston the colonists shot at them from behind the _____ and rocks killing 73 and wounding 174
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trees
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The British decided to drive the colonists off hills surrounding the ______ Harbor
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Boston
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The Colonists fought well and killed over 1000 British soldiers before the colonists ran out of ___________.
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Ammunition
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