Chapter 6 Matching Exercise

Militia men on alert in Massachusetts and Connecticut were referred to as __________.

During the __________, colonists, dressed as Indians, protested the Tea Act by dumping 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the __________.

The __________ brought together representatives from 12 of the colonies to discuss their repsonse to the Coercive Acts.

The English opposition party that opposed excessive royal power was known as the __________.

Colonists routinely ignored the __________, streaming over the Appalachians to settle in the 1760s.

Colonists resented the new taxes on paint, lead, glass, tea, and paper that were part of the __________.

Between salutary neglect and the defiance of colonists, the __________ were rarely enforced during the first hundred years after Parliament passed the first of these laws.

British troops shot down Crispus Attucks and four other colonists in the __________.

After the Battle of Bunker Hill and taking of Forrt Ticonderoga, the Continental Congress had still not settled on independence, as the __________ makes clear.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the __________ with help from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.

From the Stamp Act protests onward, the __________ often organized crowd actions and enforced consumer boycotts.