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- General gage gave orders to arrest __ __ and __ __ and to capture the ammunition at concord
- Britain was surprised that other colonies supported __ __ rather than abandoning it
- __ __ and William Dawes left Boston to rouse the minutemen: "to arms!, to arms!"
- Young George Washington initiated the war in the __ __ (he led an expedition to warn France and build a fort-France had a fort there already and in a skirmish shoes were fired leaving some French dead)
- __ __ - non importation agreement calling for complete boycott of British goods
- Charles Townshend, chancellor of the exchequer, created new taxes called
- __ __ France lost all of its territory in Canada and east of the Mississippi)
- The British East India company was given a monopoly to sell tea to America very __ even with __
- __ __ __ - Paxton boys in pa weren't gonna go past the Appellations bc they wanted to keep peace w the Indians
- __ __ violent Indian uprising served as an urgent reminder that a standing army was needed
- franco-british wars, tension between england france and Spanish led to several European conflicts (king Williams war, queen annes war, king George's war), fierce fighting in both the southern and northern colonies, Spain and France were Allies against Britain
- most significant action- complete boycott, they agreed that there would be a second continental congress, of the colonists grievances hadn't been addressed
- Colonists avoided purchasing this taxes tea by getting __ __ __
- They closed __ __ until someone paid for the tea
- Troops sent to nearby __ and __ to seize stores of gunpowder and ammunition
- The __ has to fight their way back to __ and suffered 270 casualties (the myth of British invincibility was destroyed)
- __ __ - prohibited the colonists from printing paper money
- __ __ __ resulted in 1713 treaty of Utrecht (France ceded nova scotia and Newfoundland to England)
- Enforcement of the __ __ pushed eastern merchant and large landowners into an alliance with the westerns
- Allowed the French residents of Québec to retain their traditional political and religious institutions, and extended the boundaries of the province southward to the Ohio River. Mistakenly perceived by the colonists to be part of Parliament's response to the Boston Tea Party.