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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a blockade?
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use of warships to prevent ships from entering or leaving a harbor
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Who were the Patriots?
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Colonists against Britian
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What did the Sons of Liberty do?
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attacked homes of tax collectors
beat tax collectors |
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What are rights?
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Freedoms
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What was the Boston Massacre?
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Fighting that broke out between British solders and colonists
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Who said "Give me liberty or give me death?
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Patrick Henry
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What is a massacre?
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Killing people who can't defead themselves
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British ordered the colonists to quarter who?
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British solders
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Congress
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Meeting of representatives to make decisions is called the?
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The British were angry about the Boston Tea Party so what did they do?
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Passed law that no ship could leave Boston Harbor until tea was paid for.
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What did the Stamp Act Congress do?
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Met to decide what to do about taxes. Asked colonists to refuse to buy stamped goods
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What two Patriot leaders were the British trying to get to?
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John Hancock
Samuel Adams |
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What did Samuel Adams set up?
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Committees of Correspondence
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Who met and agreed to stop all trade with Britian?
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Continental Congress
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What did the Committees of Correspondence do?
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Wrote letters to each other about British Laws
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What do Minutemen do?
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Are fighters ready to fight in a moments notice
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What was the Boston Tea Party?
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colonists were angry over tea stamp, they dressed as Indians and threw British tea into Boston Harbor
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Who warned the Colonists that the British were coming?
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Paul Reeve
William Dawes |
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What were the 9000 British solders sent to protect?
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Western Lands but all 9000 were on the coast far from western lands. this caused Boston Massacre
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Who was made governor of Mass who was also British?
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General Thomas Gage
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Who was the country's most respected citizen?
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Ben Franklin
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Where did the Rev. War begin and "shots were heard around the world"
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Lexington and Concord
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What did Ben Franklin warn the Britain about?
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Colonists would fight if forced to pay taxes
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Who repealed the Stamp Act?
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Parliament
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What did Ben Franklin do?
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organized 1st volunteer fire department
first hospital street lights paved streets |
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What does repeal mean?
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no longer a law
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Townshend Acts affected what?
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trade
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What are consequences?
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Results
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What does to quarter mean?
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to house
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What did the Daughters of Liberty do?
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They knitted, wove cloth, and spun thread to prevent having to buy material from England
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