1. What was the significance of the Boston Massacre?
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2. What action did the First Continental Congress take to show its disapproval of English policies?
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3. What was the source for many of the basic ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
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1. The Boston Massacre played a role in escalating tensions between the American colonists and the British government.
2. The First Continental Congress boycotted British goods and drafted petitions.
3. The Enlightenment philosophers and the British political tradition influenced the Declaration of Independence.