- Leader of the Minutemen at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. (Also, remember to visit the URL for Family Tree info. due 1st week in Jan.).
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Alfred E. Neuman
John Parker
William Dawes
Patrick Henry
- American patriot who learned that British troops were marching to Lexington and who helped to warn John Hancock and the Minutemen of the advancing British.
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Patrick Henry
William Dawes
Sam Adams
John Parker
- American colony that was not represented at the First Continental Congress.
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South Carolina
Massachusetts
Georgia
Virginia
- Group of 4 laws passed in 1774 to tighten Great Britain's control over the Thirteen Colonies.
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Stamp Act
Quartering Acts
Coercive Acts
Currency Act
- Law passed by Parliament that required each colony to provide a place for British troops to live.
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Homestead Act
Currency Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
- Method used by colonists to bring about the repeal of the Stamp Act by refusing to buy or to use British goods.
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Slavery
Grumbling
Girlmattress
Boycott
- Meeting of colonial leaders in New York City in 1765 to protest British taxes.
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Quartering Act Congress
FamilyTree Fest
Stamp Act Congress
New York City! Salsa
- Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who challenged the king's right to make laws for the colonists.
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John Parker
William Dawes
Fonzi
Patrick Henry
- Western border of the 13 colonies as established by the Proclamation of 1763.
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Appalachian Mountains
South Carolina
California
Georgia
- Condition in which most black Americans had been brought to the colonies.
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Boycott
Coercive Acts
Slavery
Currency Act
- When the colonists said they would not obey the Intolerable Acts, King George III ...
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sent more British troops to the colonies.
immediately left England for the colonies.
withdrew British troops from the colonies.
started talking to a tree.
- The Boston Tea Party took place in ...
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1773
1990
1770
1776
- During the early 1770's, many Americans came to believe that they...
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should have a representative in parliament before any taxes were placed on the colonies.
should pay heavy British taxes.
were vulnerable to kryptonite.
were inferior to the English.
- In 1767, Parliament suspended New York's colonial assembly because the assembly...
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had made unofficial chip dip.
had not carried out the Quartering Act.
would not collect the stamp tax.
had begun to print its own currency.
- The law that stated Great Britain's right to tax the colonists was called the...
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Navigation Act
Declaratory Act
Importation Act
Currency Act
- Parliament passed the Stamp Act, in part because British leaders...
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felt that it was a tax law that the colonists could not ignore or avoid.
wanted to lower the income of prominent colonial leaders.
wante the colonists to lick more stamps.
wanted to anger the colonists.
- To enforce their colonial policies in 1760, British leaders...
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ordered British warships to catch smugglers.
lowered colonial taxes.
passed the Alfred E. Neuman Acts.
withdrew all British troops from the colonies.
- One goal of the British colonial policy that was established after 1763 was to...
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protect Dianna.
have the American colonists pay their share of the debt brought about by the French and Indian War.
encourage large-scale colonial manufacturing.
open trade among the colonies.
- During the 1700's, the main economic activity in the American colonies was...
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manufacturing.
shipbuilding.
computer networking.
farming.
- During the mid-1700's, crafts and skills were taught in the American colonies mainly...
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through apprenticeships.
by colleges and universities.
by public schools.
by Santa's Helpers.