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30 Cards in this Set
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A 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid.
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Stamp Act, p.160
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A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that required the colonies to house and supply British soldiers.
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Quartering Act, p.160
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A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other prodcuts shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment of smugglers.
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Sugar Act, p.160
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income a government collects to cover expenses.
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revenue, pp.160,252
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A refusal to buy certain goods.
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boycott, p.161
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A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution.
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Sons of Liberty, p.161
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A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies.
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Townshend Acts, p.163
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A search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial home or businesses to search for smuggled goods.
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writ of assistance, p.164
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A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed.
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Boston Massacre, p.165
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Capital of Massachusetts; site of early colonial unrest and conflict.
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Boston, p.165, m172
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A group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs.
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committee of corrrespondence, p.166
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The dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.
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Boston Tea party, p.167
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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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Intolerable Acts, p.170
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A member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning."
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Minutemen, p.170
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A meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights.
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First Continental Congress, p.171
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Massachusetts city and site of second battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Concord, p.172, m172
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Massachusetts city and site of first Revolutionary War battle in 1775.
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Lexington, p.173, m172
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An American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution.
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Loyalist, p.173
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An American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution.
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Patriot, p.173
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Bunker Hill now part of Boston; its name misidentifies Revolutionary War battle fought at nearby Breed's Hill.
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Bunker Hill, p.177
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A cannon or large gun.
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artillery, p.177
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A colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, with George Washington as its commanding general.
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Continental Army, p.177
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A governing body whose delegates agree, in May 1775, to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Indpendence.
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Second Continental Congress, p.177
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As Charles Town, largest Southern colonial city; South Carolina site of first Civil War shots, at offshore Fort Sumter.
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Charleston, p.481, m483
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The document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain.
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Declaration of Independence, p.180
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A professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country.
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mercenary, p.195
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An overall plan of action.
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strategy, p.196
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A meeting.
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rendezvous, p.197
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A series of conflicts between the British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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Battles of Saratoga, p.199
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A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal.
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ally, p.200
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