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Stamp Act
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a 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
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Townshed Acts
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a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britian by the British colonies in North America
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Boston Massacre
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a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
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committees of correspondence
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one of the groups set up by the American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties
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Boston Tea Party
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the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
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Intolerable Acts
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a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
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martial law
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temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority
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minutemen
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Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute's notice
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Second Continental Congress
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the Continental Congress that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence and served as the only agency of national government during the Revolutionary War
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Olive Branch Petition
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a document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britian
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Common Sense
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a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britian
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Declaration of Independence
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the document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britian
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Patriots
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colonists who supported American independence from Britian
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Loyalists
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colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution
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inflation
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an increase in prices or a decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
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profiteering
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the selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices
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Treaty of Paris (1783)
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the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and settling the boundaries of the new nation
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egalitarianism
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the belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights
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