Week 6 New Flashcards
1
Q
Chief frustration of American colonists:
A
taxation without representation
2
Q
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
A
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
3
Q
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
A
Boston Massacre
4
Q
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
A
Boston Tea Party
5
Q
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
A
First Continental Congress
6
Q
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
A
minutemen
7
Q
Date of Boston Massacre:
A
1770
8
Q
Date of Boston Tea Party:
A
1773
9
Q
First Continental Congress:
A
September 1774
10
Q
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
A
Patrick Henry
