U.S History Set 2 (Boston Tea Party) (Battles)

In ______ the British East India Company had 17 million pounds of unsold tea

1773

They lowered the price of tea to an ____ time low even with the tax

all

On ___________ members of suns of liberty dressed like Indian and opened 3r42 chests of tea nd dumped the tea in harbor

Dec 16 1773

Intolerable Acts

laws directed to people of Boston as England's response to the Boston Tea Party

First Continental congress

met in Philadelphia sept 1774
- representative not ready yet for independence but petitioned England to return to the days before parliamentary vacation - which was rejected

Was capital from ____ to ___

1774 1800

Washingont was in Philidephila because D.C was being _____

built

Congress approved a _________ wide boycott of British products

full scale/colony

Minute Men could be ready in a _______

minute

3 million in colonies
____ favored independence, loyal to England, doesn't matter

1/3

Paul _____ let us know that a British army was marching toward Concord

Revere

In __________- 700 British troops from Boston were sent to Concord to seize store of colonial gunpowder and arrest colonial leaders

Apri 18, 1775

They met ____ minutemen and Lexington under the command of _______

70
John Parker

After the battle of Lexington/Concord ___ Americans were killed and ___ wounded

8 and 10

During Britain's return to Boston from Concord American men from all lover surrounding harassed the British and inflicted sever casualties on the British force
Causing ___ to ___ British ____ redcoats and ____ wounded

3 1
73
174

Battle of Breeds (Hill/Bunker)
On June 17, 1775 the British engage the American by assaulting the ____ on top of breeds hill

positions

American commander Colonel ____ told his men
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"

Prescott

There were
____ target
____ bullets
Minutemen ran out of ammunition the ___ charge

closer
save
3rd

British charged up the hill __ times and the Americans drove them back down the first two before they ran out of ammunition

3

America had ____ casualties
Britain had ______ casualties

415
1054

Battle of Boston
March 5 1776
General ____ and his men brought 43 cannons over 300 miles from ft. Ticonderoga on New York to Boston
Washington place them on the top of hills and the troops were in an indefensible position so they left the city

Knox

The British ________ because of the cannon and Washington ____ not to fire on their ships as they sailed away (as long as they don't torch the city on their way out...) they left

surrendered
promised

This was the first time in a decade the British had gotten away
This was the______ of the war

beginning