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PARLIMENT |
the legislature of certain British colonies and possessions |
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STAMP ACT |
an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and was repealed in March, 1766. |
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REPEAL |
to revoke or annul (a law, tax, duty, etc.) by express legislative enactment |
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SONS OF LIBERTY |
secret organizations formed in the American colonies in protest against the Stamp Act (1765) |
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TOWNSHEND ACTS |
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea |
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TARIFF |
an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports |
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BOYCOTT |
To not buy goods |
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DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY |
established in the year 1765, that consisted of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts |
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BOSTON MASSACRE |
known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. |
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COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE |
were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. |
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TEA ACT |
The principal objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. |
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BOSTON TEA PARTY |
A group of indignant colonists, led by Samuel Adams, PaulRevere, and others, disguised themselves as Native Americans, boarded the ships on the night of Dec. 16, 1773, and threw the tea into the harbor |
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INTOLERABLE ACTS |
adopted by Parliament in 1774, which limited the political and geographical freedom of the colonists. Four of these laws were passed to punish the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. I.E. colonists were ordered to feed and house the soliders, they were put under the control of Gen Thomas Gage, and the port of boston was closed |
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PATRIOTS |
a person who regards himself or herself as a defender, esp. of individual rights, against presumed interference by the federal government. |
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LOYALISTS |
colonials who adhered to the British cause |
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FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS |
was made up of delegates from all the colonies except Georgia The session's most important act was the creation of the Continental Association, which forbade importation and use of British goods and proposed prohibition of colonial exports |
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MILITIA |
a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government |
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MINUTEMEN |
colonial militiamen or armed citizens who agreed to turn out for service at a minute's notice |
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775–83, by which the colonies won their independence. |
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BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL |
the first major battle of the American Revolution, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fought on adjoining Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775
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