________ stamp must be bought + put on anything printed on paper.
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Parliament
________ has right to tax "in all cases whatsoever.
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mercantilist competition
War for Independence- Fought by many countries (________ + revenge)
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Townshend Duties
________- Indirect tax (added costs + no reason why)
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Sons of Liberty
________- Disguised as Mohawk Indians + dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
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Stamp Act
________- Direct tax (paid at time of purchase → know price is higher + why)
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Intolerable Acts
1774- ________ to shut down actions in Boston.
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John Adams
________- Tried to acquit soldiers (fair trial)
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Quebec Act
Passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763
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Sugar Act
1764, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act
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Stamp Act
An act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
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Sons of Liberty
A loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government
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Committees of Correspondence
A collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence
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Declaratory Act
Stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
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Townshend Duties
Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies
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Quartering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
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Boycotts
A collective and organized ostracism applied in labor, economic, political, or social relations to protest practices that are regarded as unfair
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Boston Massacre
A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles
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Boston Tea Party
Demonstration by citizens of Boston who raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor
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Coercive Acts
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
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Lexington and Concord
Battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge
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Continental Congress
The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution
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Common Sense
A 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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Declaration of Independence
The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain
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Saratoga
A battle during the American Revolution; the British under Burgoyne were defeated
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The Battle of King's Mountain
One of the few major battles of the Revolutionary War waged entirely between fellow countrymen
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Yorktown
A historic village in southeastern Virginia to the north of Newport News; site of the last battle of the American Revolution
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Treaty of Paris
Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries