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6 Cards in this Set
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George Grenville
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British PM who proposed the Currency, Sugar and Stamp Acts
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Vice-Admiralty Courts
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British maritime tribunals composed only of a judge. Colonists hated them because they did not include a sympathetic colonial jury.
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Lord Rockingham
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British PM after Grenville whose policies were less tough on colonies
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Letters from a Farmer in PA
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1768 book by Dickerson opposing the right of Britain to tax the colonies
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Lord North
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British PM after 1770 who got Parliament to repeal many taxes on colonies but kept Tea Tax
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General Thomas Gage
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British general and military governor of Massachusetts who ordered British troops to seize Patriot armories which led to the “shot heard round the world”.
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