Road to Revolution (#2)

This group, disguised as Native Americans, dumbed tea into the Boston Harbor on the night of December 16, 1773.

• the Patriots

• the Loyalists

• the Sons of Liberty

Tensions were high in Boston even before Chrispus Attucks was killed in an event that became known as

• the Boston Tea Party

• the Boston Massacre

• the Tea Act

The Intolerable Acts

• prevented Massachusetts from governing itself

• strengthened the Quartering Act

• closed the Boston Harbor

• all of the above

The First Continental Congress took place in

• New York

• Boston

• Philadelphia

The main purpose of the First Continental Congress was to

• break away from Britain

• form a new government

• discuss ways to repeal the Intolerable Acts

One result of the First Continental Congress was

• America's independence

• the delegates voted to end all trade with Britain and Ireland

• the Boston Tea Party

Companies of handpicked, specially trained militia members were called

• minutemen

• mercenaries

• delegates

His famous midnight ride warned colonists that the British troops were coming

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Paul Revere

This is considered the first battle of the American Revolution

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington and Concord

• Yorktown

The shot heard round the world was significant because

• it signalled the beginning of the revolution

• it drew Spain and France into an alliance with the colonists

• it began a revolution that changed the world

• all of the above