Social Studies Ch 5, Building our Country

The ___________ placed a tax on paper products, such as legal documents, newspapers and even playing cards.

• Boston Tea Party

• petition

• Stamp Act of 1765
• Continental Army

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

The colonists were threatening stamp tax agents and boycotting British goods, this cause Great Britain to ____________ the Stamp Act.

• approve

• repeal

• quarter

• tariff

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

After the Stamp Act was repealed, the _______________ placed new taxes on the colonists.

• Townshend Act

• Boston Tea Party

• debt

• Stamp Act

The Stamp Act and Townshend Acts were laws that placed a __________ or a tax on the the goods the colonists imported from Britain.

• rights

• militia

• quarter

• tariff

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

The Boston Massacre occurred on the night of _________________ after a group of workers in Boston argued with a British soldier and threw snowballs and insults at the soldier.

• March 5, 2024

• November 10, 2000

• March 5, 1770

• November 10, 1717

A group in Boston threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor as a way of rebelling against the unfair taxation, this event became known as the ______________________ and angered the British even further.

• Boston Water Party

• Boston Soda Party

• Boston Coffee Party

• Boston Tea Party

The colonists were required to give food and shelter to British troops, this was called providing ___________.

• supplies

• quarters

• a meal

• support

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

Those who strongly opposed Britain's actions were called _________________ and those who were loyal to Great Britain were called ______________.

• red coats, blue coats

• colonists, British

• Patriots, Loyalists

• farmers, politicians

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

The Continental Congress was formed and one of Congress's first acts was to create the ________________________.

• tariff

• Treaty of Paris

• independence

• Continental Army

A ___________________ is a written request for rights or benefits.

• petition

• tariff

• letter

• quarter

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A