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Seven Years War
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Ten year long war that began in 1754 over land in the Ohio Valley and spread to include Europe, the Caribbean, and India.
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Tea Act
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An attempt to lower the prices of East India tea below Dutch Tea to motivate Americans to buy the East India tea instead.
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Phillis Wheatley
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A young slave woman who called attention to slave owners' hypocrisy, and gained international renown for her poems about freedom for slaves, and was herself freed in 1775
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Townshend Duties
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The taxes on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint that Charles Townshend, the financial minister in England, imposed on the colonists, in an effort to get even more revenue from the colonies
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Sugar Act
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was also called the Revenue Act of 1764, lowered the tax on French molasses (used for making rum) also raised the penalties for smuggling
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First Continental Congress
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a gathering that every colony except Georgia sent delegates to Philadelphia in 1774, they debated the possible responses to the Coercive Acts, included Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
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Virginia political leader; he presented the Virginia Resolves, which sparked taxation without representation and versions of the same thing all over the rest of the colonies
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Albany Plan of Union
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Ben Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson presented a union of the colonies which in no way rejected the Brits that would be in charge of war and defense
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Stamp Act
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an imposed a tax on all paper used for official documents.
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Coercive Acts
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Four laws meant to punish Massachusetts for destroying the tea.
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