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Parliament
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The members of the _____________ passed laws for all British people. The people in Britain elected leaders to speak for them in the part of government called _______________.
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Self Government
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The people in ________ __________ thought they should be able to make their own laws.
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Democracy
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a government in which the people take part.
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Legislatures
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Almost like small local Parliaments, ______________ made most of the decisions.
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Allies
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Friends in war.
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Taxes
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Money paid to the government to run the country.
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Authority
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Control
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Tariff
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A tax on goods brought into the country.
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Loyalists
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The people who held with the british view were called ___________.
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Representation
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someone acting or speaking for someone.
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Treason
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working against one's government.
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Pubic Opinion
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What the people thought.
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Liberty
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The freedom to make one's own laws.
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Boycott
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Refuse to buy.
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Congress
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A meeting of representatives who have the authority to make decisions.
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Repeal
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To make a law no longer a law.
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Date of Boston Massacre
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1770, March 5th
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Committees of Correspondence
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They wrote letters to one another about what was being done to protest about the latest british laws.
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Consequences
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Results
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Blockade
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(v) to use warships to prevent other ships from leaving or entering a harbor.
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Quarter
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To pay for one's housing.
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Continental Congress
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A meeting made to decide what to do with the new unfair british laws and unjust taxes.
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Rights
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Freedoms
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Minutemen
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Fighters who could be ready in a minute to defend Massachusetts .
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Patriots
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Colonists who were against the british view called themselves _____________.
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