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23 Cards in this Set
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Sugar Act
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1764
Taxed Sugar, Coffee, and other products the colonists imported. |
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Duties
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Import Taxes
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Taxation without Representation
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Parliment was taxing the colonists who had no say in the electing of the Parliment members.
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Stamp Act
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1765
Taxed all sorts of printed matter. Stamps had to be purchased before items could sell. |
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Sons of Liberty
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First group to resist British authority.
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Boycott
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Refusing to buy anything English.
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Declatory Act
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1766
Stated that the colonists were under British authority. |
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Indirect taxes
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Taxes in form of higher prices.
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Tariffs
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Additional taxes
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Townshend Duties
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1767
Taxed lead, glass, paper, and tea. All everyday items. |
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Boston Massacre
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British troops started firing into a crowd of civilians because they were being harrased.
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Tea Act
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1773
Gave East India Company a monopoly of tea sales in America. Also cut out the tax that England had to pay. |
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East India Company
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A British company.
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Monopoly
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Exclusive control of a product or service.
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Boston Tea Party
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The colonists dumped the tea in the harbour.
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Intolerable Acts
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What the colonists called the Coercive Acts.
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Committe of Correspondence
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A committe to keep track of radicals
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First Continential Congress
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Delegates from each colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia.
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Patriots
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Local groups that took over.
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Minute Men
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Men ready for a battle any minute.
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Concord
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A town 15 miles west of Boston where the British tried to seize weapons.
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Lexington
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Where Sam Adams and John Hancock were before the Battle at Concord
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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The first real battle of the Revolutionary War.
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