SS ch 7 lessons 3 & 4

The Boston Massacre started because

• people wanted to have soldiers in Boston

• a crowd yelled and threw snowballs at soldiers

• Parliament passed the Tea Act

• 5 colonists were killed

The Committees of Correspondence were formed to

• share news and ideas with other colonies

• tell the British what colonists were doing

• throw tea in the Boston Harbor

• stop paying the British taxes

The Sons of Liberty held the Boston Tea Party because Britain

• passed the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

• stopped all trade between Boston and Britain

• forced people to quarter soldiers in their homes

• tried to make the colonists pay a tax on tea

Where was the first fight between colonists and British soldiers?

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington and Concord

• Breed's Hill

• Fort Ticonderoga

What was sent to King George asking for a peaceful resolution to the conflict?

Why did the militia lose the Battle of Bunker Hill?

• Washington told them to stop fighting

• They ran away

• There were too many British soldiers

• They ran out of ammunition

What is true about 1775?

• An army of trained soldiers was created to win a war against Britain.

• No one wanted to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

• The patriots had no weapons or ammunition.

• People in Boston were happy to quarter British soldiers.

Who sent soldiers to capture the colonists' military supplies?

When soldiers killed 5 people in a fight in Boston, angry colonists called it a

Why did the British Parliament need to tax the colonies?

• British owed money to the American Indians.

• The French and Indian War had cost them a lot of money.

• The British owed money to the French.

• The British owed money to the Spanish.