Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 24

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters' colors imported into the colonies. The law led to boycotts and heightened tensions between Britain and the American colonies.

• A)Boston Massacre
• B)Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
• C)committees of correspondence
• D)Declaratory Act
• E)First Continental Congress
• F)Pontiac's Rebellion
• G)Seven Years' War
• H)Stamp Act
• I)Sugar (Revenue) Act
• J)Tea Act of 1773
• K)Townshend duties
• L)virtual representation

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Definitions:

Continental Congress

The assembly of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies which became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution.

Philadelphia

A historic city in Pennsylvania, significant for its role in the early history of the United States, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Homespun Clothing

Clothing made from cloth spun or woven at home, typically signaling simplicity or a return to traditional values.

American Resistance

Efforts and actions taken by American colonists to oppose British rule, leading up to the American Revolution.