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Who made laws for all the British people? | British Parliament |
What was the first colonial legislature called that was started in the Virginial colony? | House of Burgesses |
What became a British colony after the French and Indian War? | French Canada |
What did the American colonists have to pay because of the cost of the French and Indian War? | taxes |
What did the Sugar Act require colonists to pay o goods brought into the colonies. | a tariff |
What were colonists who supported actions of the British government called? | Loyalists or Tories |
Why were many colonists against the Stamp Act? | it was an example of taxation without representation |
How did colonists protest the Stamp Act? | with a boycott of British goods |
Who was Crispus Attucks? | a runaway slave who was killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre |
What did colonists form to keep each other informed about protests against British laws? | Committees of Correspondence |
What was the Boston Tea Party? | the Sons of Liberty protested the tax on tea. |
What is another name for providing housing for British soldiers? | to quarter |
What were Minutemen? | Members of the Massachusetts militia who were always ready to defend the colony. |
What marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War? | fighting between the colonists and the British army in Lexington and Concord. |