EVENTS
Why was the first continental congress gathered?
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To discuss ways to ban trade with Br.
The start of the Revolution was with what battle?
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Lexington
This document asked the king to restore harmony btwn Br. and the colonies.
-Olive Branch Petition
In this battle, Br. troops were victorious, however they suffered a significant amount of casualties, so
much so that Gen Gage wrote “the loss we have sustained is greater than we can bear.”
-Bunker Hill
What was the second continental congress responsible for creating?
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Continental Army
PEOPLE
This recent immigrant from England was considered a poltical radical. He wrote a pamphlet
denouncing the king of England which resulted in selling 100,000 copies in three months.
-THOMAS PAINE
What Br. Politician urged Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act?
-WILLIAM PITT
Name two people killed during the Boston Massacre.
-CRISPUS ATTUCKS, JAMES CALDWELL
Which colony was not present during the First Continental Congress?
-GEORGIA
Who was the person responsible for spreading the message to Concord?
-DR. PRESCOTT
PEOPLE
This person defended the redcoats accused at the Boston Massacre.
-JOHN ADAMS
This group formed their own protest organization in which they boycotted Br. goods, they urged
colonists to weave their own cloth.
-DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY
This person became the new governor of Mass. after the BTP.
-THOMAS GAGE
This person headed the Committee of Safety, he was also one of the two people that the Br. were
looking to arrest on their way to Concord.
-JOHN HANCOCK
This person, a lawyer from PA, expressed his ideas about the Townshend Acts in a famous pamphlet in
which he said, “we cannot be happy without being free, we cannot be secure in our property, if taxed
without our consent.”
-JOHN DICKINSON
ACTS
Which act was passed first by the Br?
-PROCLAMATION OF 1763
This act placed a tax on molasses and other products shipped to the colonies.
-SUGAR
When the Townshend acts were repealed they left this act in its place.
-TEA
Passed in 1766, this act affirmed Parliaments right to legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.
(supreme authority)
-DECLARATORY ACT
Which came first: Townshend or Stamp?
-STAMP
Townshend Act was named after whom?
-CHARLES TOWNSHEND
MISC
WHAT PERCENTAGE/FRACTION OF THE COLONISTS WERE CONSIDERED PATRIOTS?
-1/3
WHAT ACT ALLOWED OFFICERS TO ISSUE WRITS OF ASSISTANCE?
-TOWNSHEND ACTS
WHICH ACT LATER INFLUENCED THE COLONISTS TO INCLUDE THE 3RD AMENDMENT?
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QUARTERING ACT
LIST 4 OF THE COLONISTS ADVANTAGES HEADING INTO THE REV. WAR