1. What two reasons led the British to start the Tea Act? (2 sentences)
a. help the struggling East India Tea Company
b. make the colonists pay taxes
2. Explain the phrase “No Taxation without Representation.” Why did the colonists use this
saying? (2 sentences)
a. people cannot be taxed when they have no representatives in the government choosing
the tax
b. the colonists had no representation in Parliament
3. What were the four conditions of the Intolerable Acts? (4 sentences)
a. British troops to go back to Boston
b. Boston citizens had to house and feed troops
c. Thomas Gage now in charge of Massachusetts
d. Boston port closed
4. What were the decisions made by the First Continental Congress? (3 sentences)
a. stop trading with the British all together
b. start training militias in each colony
c. meet again in one year if nothing has improved
5. Compare and contrast the Committees of Correspondence and the Minutemen? (3 sentences)
a. Committees of Correspondence
i. fought against the British with information
ii. used express riders to move information
iii. able to get information moved quickly
b. Minutemen
i. fought as militias against the British with guns
ii. used farmers and tradesmen from everywhere
iii. able to move as a unit quickly