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What as the crucial issue behind the War of Independence? Stamp tax Tea tax An idealized view of liberty Practical self-government
Practical self-government
What was the main purpose of the Committees of Correspondence? To make laws for the colonies To supervise and supply militia To provide news on British threats to liberty To debate resolutions on colonial rights
To provide news on British threats to liberty
What sparked the Coercive Acts? The Gaspee incident The Boston Massacre The Committees of Correspondence The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party
What was a major accomplishment of the First Continental Congress? To appoint a commander in chief To assert the rights of the colonies to govern
themselves To petition the king to stop the abuses of
Parliament To raise a Continental army
To assert the rights of the colonies to govern themselves
The major reason that the colonists lost the Battle of Bunker Hill was that The militia fled during the middle of the battle The American generals made some major
blunders The British outnumbered the Americans
almost four to one The American soldiers ran out of ammunition
The American soldiers ran out of ammunition
What action did Boston’s Patriots take in 1773 when some British ships refused to take their tea back to England?
The Boston Tea Party
What term refers to “citizen soldiers” such as the minutemen?
militia
A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage
__ British general whose army occupied
Boston and attacked Concord
C) Thomas Gage
A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage
__ Virginian Patriot whose speeches
supported the war
B) Patrick Henry
A) Lexington and Concord B) Patrick Henry C) Thomas Gage
__ the first engagement of the American
Revolution
A) Lexington and Concord