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Whigs

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those who opposed James II

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George Grenville

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chief minister who faced sharply rising costs for the defense of the US colonies

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Molasses Act of 1733

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set a customs duty on molasses in order to prevent trade with the French sugar islands

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Sugar Act

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cut duty on molasses in half, reducing temptation to smuggle or to bribe customs officers

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Currency Act of 1764

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regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America

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Stamp Act

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revenue stamps that were to be purchased and attached to printed matter and legal documents

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Quartering Act

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required colonies to supply British troops with provisions and barracks

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Sons of Liberty

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rebels against Grenville

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Virginia Resolves

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inspired by Patrick Henry; series of resolutions passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765

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Marquis of Rockingham

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new minister who replaced Grenville

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Charles Townshend

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guiding force in the ministry

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Revenue Act of 1767

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levied duties on colonial imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, tea

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Samuel Adams

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whipped up the Sons of Liberty

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Boston Massacre

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culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.

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Boston Tea Party

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political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea

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The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

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meant to punish the colonists for all the money that was wasted when the tea was thrown in the harbor; took away Massachusetts self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies

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Lexington & Concord Battles

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first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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with significant British casualties, the British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after the defenders in the redoubt ran out of ammunition. The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill

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Olive Branch Petition

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final attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain

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Declaration of Independence

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adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire