Events Leading to the American Revolution

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Which of the following were not taxed as a result of the Townshend Act? glass, paper, lead, roads

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roads

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The Intolerable Acts were passed by the British as a result of

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The Boston Tea Party

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The Intolerable Acts shut down

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Boston

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What was Parliament's response to the colonists' protests against the Stamp Act?

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they repealed the Stamp Act

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What was the name of the law that the British passed that said the colonists had to provide food and housing to soldiers stationed in the colonies?

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The Quartering Act

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What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

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it closed Western lands to settlers

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Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death." He identified himself as a which one of the following?

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Patriot

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What was the name for the group of delegates from 12 colonies who met in Philadelphia in September 1774 and agreed to boycott all British goods & to establish colonial militias?

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First Continental Congress

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He was a member of the Sons of Liberty. It was rumored that he organized the Boston Tea Party.

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Sam Adams

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Bostonian Silversmith who engraved a picture of British soldiers firing at unarmed colonists

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Paul Revere