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1
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Chief frustration of American colonists:

A

taxation without representation

2
Q

Five causes of the Revolutionary War:

A
  1. trade and navigation laws
  2. stamp act
  3. Townshend Acts
  4. Boston Massacre
  5. 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