Causes of the American Revolution

Question 1

Money paid for government services

Accepted Answer

tax

Question 2

To bring goods in illegally

Accepted Answer

smuggle

Question 3

This act taxed anything printed on paper.

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Stamp Act

Question 4

Colonists held a meeting in Philadelphia to discuss theIntolerable Acts.

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First ContinentalCongress

Question 5

Freedom

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liberty

Question 6

This act allowed the East India Company to sell tea in America at a very low price.

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Tea Act

Question 7

This act taxed imported sugar, coffee, and cloth. Merchants avoided the tax by smuggling.

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Sugar Act

Question 8

A crowd in Boston was arguing with a British soldier and started throwing snowballs.

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Boston Massacre

Question 9

Todo away with

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repeal

Question 10

The first shots of the revolution were fired here.

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Battle of Lexington

Question 11

The killing of many people

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masscre

Question 12

Sons of Liberty boarded a ship in Boston Harbor and threw the tea into the harbor.

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Boston Tea Party

Question 13

To refuse to buy, sell, or use

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boycott

Question 14

This act taxed tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper.

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Townshend Act

Question 15

This order said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

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Proclamation of 1763

Questions 15