Colonial America: Key Events and Acts

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What was the First Continental Congress?

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the meeting of delegates from 12 colonies

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What did the colonists call the laws that were passed to punish them after the Boston Tea Party?

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the Intolerable Acts

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What did not feed the anger that led to the Boston Massacre?

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The Boston Tea Party

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The Townshend Acts taxed several goods that the colonies

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brought into the colonies for sale.

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How did colonists react to the Stamp Act?

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They protested until it was repealed

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Which law required colonists to provide British soldiers with food, transportation, and housing?

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the Quartering Act

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Which part of the British government passed acts?

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Parliament

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What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

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to protect the colonists

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Outcome of the French and Indian War?

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The British went deeply into debt

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What do the eight parts of the cartoon snake drawn by Benjamin Franklin represent?

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All of the colonies