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Question 1

Minutemen

Answer 1

Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds.

Question 2

Tea Act of 1773

Answer 2

The Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to ship tea directly to America really cheap. The cheap tea hurt local colonial merchants because they lost business. Colonists opposed these shipments, turned back ships, left shipments to rot and held ships in port. This event led to the Boston Tea Party.

Question 3

Boston Tea Party of 1773

Answer 3

American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor.

Question 4

Intolerable Acts of 1774

Answer 4

This was in response to Boston Tea Party. Boston Harbor was closed until the tea was paid for, Boston could only have one town meeting a year, royal officers who were accused of a crime were put on trial in Britain, not Massachusetts, and more British soldiers were sent to Boston.

Question 5

First Continental Congress (1774)

Answer 5

Meeting held in Philadelphia that demanded the Intolerable Acts be repealed, recommended training militias, storing gunpowder/guns and boycotting British goods.

Question 6

Lexington and Concord (April 1775)

Answer 6

The first battles of the Revolutionary War that were fought outside of Boston. The colonial militia successfully defended their stores of weapons and powder. Colonists forced the British to retreat to Boston.