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Colonial Period Worksheet and quiz 3
NAME:…………………………………………
Date: …………………………….
Questions:
- The Continental Congress selected a committee of five men to write an official declaration of independence ………………………………………….
- The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on………………………………………….
- …………………………………………….. wrote a short political pamphlet named Common Sense, which urged Americans to seek freedom from Great Britain.
- In April, 1775, …………………………………. sent 700 redcoats to seize weapons and arrest Patriot leaders.
- The Second Continental Congress sent a document named as ………………………………to Parliament which detailed the things Americans were unhappy about.
- Colonists in Boston threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers on ……………………………
- ………………………………………………… was known as the ‘Firebrand of the American Revolution’.
- The British passed the Tea Act in ………………………..
- …………………………………………. at least 5,000 Bostonians met at Old South Church to protest the Tea Act.
- In September, 1774 a group of ……………………. delegates met in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress.
Answers:
- In June of 1776
- July 4, 1776
- Thomas Paine
- General Gage
- the Olive Branch Petition
- March 5, 1770
- Samuel Adams
- 1773
- On December 16, 1773
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