Uccp Chapter 4 Us History

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Locke’s Two Treatises of Government

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the so called manifesto for liberal democracy and capitalism

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Thomas Paine

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Author of political pamphlets during 1770s and 1780s; wrote "Common Sense" in 1776

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The Boston Tea Party

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When about 50 brothers from the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and boarded three tea ships in Boston. As a large crowd watched they emptied every tea crate into the harbor.

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The Townshend Duties

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Import taxes on lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass collected at port. Revenue used to support British troops, roal governors and judges. These acts also created a customs commission and suspended the New york assembly for failing to comply with the act.

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Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

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Acts targeted Massachusetts. Port Bill closed Boston harbor until Boston paid for the tea destroyed at the Boston Tea Party. Other acts nearly eliminated selfgovernment in Massachusetts. New provisions to tthe Quartering Act required colonists to house British soldiers in private homes as necessary.

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The Declaration of Independence

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1776 statement; issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain

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The Continental Congress

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The Continental Congress was the legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States from 1774 to 1789

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Statue of Religious Freedom

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the declaration of Thomas Jefferson that every man ought to have religious freedom

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Abigail Adams

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First lady, 1797-1801; as the wife of Patriot John Adams, she urged him to promote women's rights at the beginning of the American Revolution

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Crispus Attucks

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possibly a runaway slave who is accounted with the first death of the American Revolution in the Boston Massacre