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Which Act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants? Options: Declaratory Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, The Tea Act

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The Tea Act

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What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated? Options: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Intolerable Acts

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Boston Tea Party

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Which act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists? Options: Declaratory Act, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts

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Declaratory Act

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Goods being imported to the colonies were taxed by which act? Options: Declaratory Act, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts

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Townshend Acts

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Which act taxed the colonists without their consent? Options: Declaratory Act, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts

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Stamp Act

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Which of the following allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses? Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Writ of assistance

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Sugar Act

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Colonists who saw no reason to break with Britain were called

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Loyalists

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A militia is a group of citizen soldiers.

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True

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Musket is another word for cannon

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False

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Who was Thomas Gage?

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the British general ordered to arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia