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Question 0

Tea act

Answer 0

Were instead of the company selling to merchants who would then sell to the people, the company could sell directly to the people. This would make the tea cost less and more appealing to the colonists.

Question 1

British East India company

Answer 1

Transported tea to the colonies.

Question 2

Boston tea party

Answer 2

Where people attack tea ships and poured all the tea into the ocean. They attacked the ships because they refused to leave the harbor.

Question 3

Intolerable acts

Answer 3

Laws passed by Britain as result of the Boston tea party.

1: shut down the port of Boston.
2: almost no town meetings for Massachusetts.
3: let officials be trailed in British not Massachusetts.
4: all people would have to let soldiers house with them .

Question 4

First continental congress

Answer 4

Where 12 colonial leaders met and discussed things. They decided that they would boycott all British goods until the intolerable acts went away.

Question 5

Militia

Answer 5

Where a group of citizens become an army in a time of need.

Question 6

Minutemen

Answer 6

Men who were prepared to fight at any moment.