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8 Cards in this Set
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tax
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is the money that people pay to their governments in return for services
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smuggling
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which means to import goods illegally
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liberty
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means freedom from being controlled by another government
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protest
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is an event tin which people complain about an issue
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boycott
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is a group of people who refuse to but sell or use certain goods
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repeal
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a law means to cancel
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explain why British imposed taxes on the American colonies and wny colonists opposed to them
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pay for the soldiers who were left there protecting the land they had just obtained
needed money to pay back the cosst of the french and indian war colonists were against the kings taxes because they felt that only their representatives could tax them |
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what was the purpose for creating the townshend act
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to pay for services they used on a daily basis in the colonies
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