Road to Revolution and American Revolution1

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The Proclamation of 1763 forbids colonists from settling_____________

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West of the Appalachain Mountains

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Why did the British enact the Proclamation of 1763?

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to prevent Native Americans and settlers from fighting over land

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Who is known as a founder of the Sons of Liberty?

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Samuel Adams

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The event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped British Tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of British rule was the

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Boston Tea Party

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The Townshend Acts

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placed a tax on tea, lead, glass, and paint.

Front

This act placed a tax on most paper goods
newspapers, playing cards, books, and calendars

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Stamp Act

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These acts were passed by British Parliament in
order to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea
Party

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Intolerable Acts

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Why was the phrase “taxation without representation” so important to the revolutionary cause?

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Colonists did not wish to support a government in which they had no voice.

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Americans wanting to break away from Britain are called

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Patriots

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The first major battle of the Revolutionary War, a skirmish between British soldiers and minutemen outside of Boston, was:

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Battle of Lexington and Concord