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MCAS Review Grade 8 Social Studies - Part C


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Paul RevereRode to warn the colonists that "the British are coming"?
George IIIKing of England during the American Revolution?
Sons of LibertyTea was dumped into the harbor by this patriotic group dressed as Indians?
Redcoat / Lobster BackSlang term for British soldier?
Patrick HenryThis man said, "Give me liberty or give me death"?
Samuel AdamsName the leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts?
ToriesColonists who were loyal to the British government were called this?
Samuel AdamsBoston lawyer who organized the Committees of Correspondence?
PontiacChief of the Ottawa Indians who organized the Indians against the colonies?
Patrick HenryVirginian who was a powerful speaker against unpopular English acts?
George GrenvilleEnglishman who became Chancellor of the Exchequer and was responsible for the Stamp Act?
James OtisBoston lawyer who proposed the Stamp Act Congress?
BostonThe famous "massacre" occurred in this city?
PhiladelphiaThe first Continental Congress met here?
MassachusettsBoston was found in this colony?
New YorkStamp Act Congress met in this colony?
ConcordColonial troops first fired on British troops here?
VirginiaPatrick Henry came from this colony?
ConcordSamuel Adams and John Hancock were hiding from General Gage in this town?
New YorkThe Townshend Acts forbid the Assembly of this colony to meet?
MassachusettsTowns of Concord and Lexington were located in this colony?
Stamp ActThis required a tax on all written documents and made the colonists furious?
SmuggledIllegal goods brought into the colonies without paying taxes on them?
CorrespondenceThese committees were organized to keep colonies informed of events by writing letters?
MinutemenThis name was given to the colonial fighting men who could be ready quickly.
First Continental CongressThis group drew up a list of complaints against the king of England?
MusketsColonial rifles were called?
ImportsGoods brought into a country?
MobAn undisciplined group?
Townshend ActsPassed to punish the colonies for rebelling against the Stamp Act?
House of BurgessesColonial legislature located in Virginia?
DutyTax on imported goods?
Proclamation of 1763Document which said English colonists could not move across the Appalachian Mountains?
Pontiac's WarThe Indian uprising in the Ohio River Valley after the French and Indian War?
Navigation ActsThis said that tobacco, wool, cotton, sugar, and indigo could be sold only in England?
Writs of AssistanceWhen "officers of the crown" searched colonial homes, they had a special search warrant called?
TeaTownshend Acts were repealed except for a tax on?
British East India CompanyHuge trading company that brought tea to the colonies?
Intolerable ActsHarsh laws passed to punish the people of Boston?
"No taxation without representation"Slogan which influenced many colonists to rebel against Great Britain?
DirectA tax paid directly to the British government?
French and Indian WarThe British kept raising taxes of the colonists to pay for this?
Representative GovernmentWhen people elect other people to make laws for them?
BoycottWhen the colonists refused to buy British goods?
Enumerated ArticlesList of good that could be sold only in England?