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In 1764 his first Act was passed by Parliament to expand the list of enumerated articles and create stricter enforcements of trade regulations.
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The Sugar Act
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Remember from Unit 2, enumerated items are certain essential raw materals produced in the North American colonies.
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This Act, passed in 1765, was the first that caused widesread protest in the Colonies. It's passing caused the formation of the Son's of Liberty.
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The Stamp Act
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This Act was later repealed by Parliament becuase the boycotts and protests of the colonies were so successful.
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The passage of this Act in 1767 promoted the writing of Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
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Townshend Acts
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The Act placd external taxes on colonial imports.
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The Boston Tea Party was a reuslt of the passage in 1773 f the Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed for what?
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A monopoly to the East India Company fir tea sold in the colonies.
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During the Boston Tea Party the Sons of Liberty and others dressed as Indians and threw crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
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These Acts, passed in 1774, were a direct response from Parliament to the Boston Tea Party. They were intended to punish Boston.
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The Intolerable or Coerive Acts
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These Acts closed the port of Boston and insituted military rule in the city.
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These allowed British soldiers to search any colonial homes and businesses.
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Writs of Assistance
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This phrase embodied the assertion of colonists that GB had no right to tax the American colonies as long as they did no thae their own representation in Parliament.
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"No taxation without representation"
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The British argued that the colonists were represented in Parliament through Virtual Representation, since the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire.
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Also known as Tories, this term refers to hose Americans who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution.
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Loyalists
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This pamphlet presented justification to Americans for thier break with Great Britain.
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Common Sense
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This pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine.
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The American victory here brought about the French alliance.
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Saratoga
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The French secretly supported the colonies throughout the warbut declared their
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The first shots of the Revolutionary war were fired here.
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Concord and Lexington
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Emmerson called it the "shot heard 'round the world"
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This rebellion of Massachusetts farmers was intended to prevent state courts from foreclosing on debtors unable to pay their taxes – a result of the war- t had to be stopped by colonial militia.
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Shay's Rebellion
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This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
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On July 5, 1775, Congress drafted this document. It outlined their issues and asked the British government to respond and deal with them.
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The Olive Branch Petition
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King George III of England refused to accept the petition. He believed the Americans to be in rebellion, and believed he could quickly end it with his military force.
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This, Ben Franklin’s plan for intercolonial cooperation proposed in 1754. Called for Grand Council of elected delegates from the colonist that would have powers to tax and provide for common defense.
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The Albany Plan
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It was rejected by the colonial and British governments but provided a prototype for colonial union.
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This, passed after the French and Indian War, prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachain Mountains.
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The Proclamation Line of 1763
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This angered colonists and served to erode the bond between the colonies and Great Britian.
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