Grade 8-Chapter 6

He promoted more political independence and representation for the colonies within the British Commonwealth

• Charles Townshend

• Samuel Adams

• William Pitt the Elder

He levied a series of taxes on colonial imports from Britain, including paper, paints, lead, glass, and tea.

• Charles Townshend

• George Washington

• William Pitt the Elder

He filled the newspapers with letters, warning the colonist that the peace with England was temporary and that the real problems had not been solved.

• Ethan Allen

• Samuel Adams

• Lemuel Haynes

The conclusion on hi speech, " I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

• Samuel Adams

• Patrick Henry

• John Hancock

The leader of the Green Mountain Boys

• Ethan Allen

• Lemuel Haynes

• George Washington

the Congress appointed him as the commander in chief

• George Washington

• Lemuel Haynes

• Patrick Henry

led the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Richard Henry Lee

Incident between an angry colonial mob and the British troops in Boston in which several colonists were killed or wounded.

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Several colonists disguised as Indians dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tea act.

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Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia in 1774.

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