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9 Cards in this Set
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Stamp Act
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A tax on printed items such as marriage licenses, playing cards, and newspapers
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Britain's reason for taxing the colonies
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A way for Britain to pay its huge debt from the French and Indian War by having the Americans pay their fair share
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Sons of Liberty
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An organization in the colonies that angrily acted against the Stamp Act
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Parliament repealed the Stamp Act.
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Parliament got rid of the Stamp Act.
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Townshend Acts
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A tax on English imports such as paint, lead, paper, and tea
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The Boston Massacre
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A fight in Boston between King George's soldiers and an angry mob of American rowdies, resulting in 5 colonists being killed
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tea on British ships into the Boston Harbor.
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Intolerable Acts
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Parliament closed Boston Harbor, dissolved Mass Assembly ( the local government ) and forced the Boston colonists to house English soldiers.
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" taxation without representation"
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Having to pay taxes without representatives who could vote for or against them in Parliament
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