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23 Cards in this Set
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1765 parliament exacted revenue by imposing stamp duty on newspapers and legal docs; repealed in '66 |
stamp act |
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1763 aka American revenue act |
sugar act |
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britains response to 1st cont. congress; claimed members had well-being of colonists in mind |
virtual representation |
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proposed form of republic democracy where each representative's vote is weighted in proportion to number of citizens who have chosen to represent them |
direct representation |
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organization of American colonists created to protect rights of citizens and fight taxation by Britain |
sons of liberty |
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it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. |
stamp act congress |
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1763; forbade settlement west of Appalachian mountains |
proclamation act |
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1766 repealed stamp acts |
declaratory act |
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measures for the taxation of the British American colonies intensified the hostilities that eventually led to the American revolution |
charles townshend |
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1767; imposed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to colonies |
townshend acts |
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British army soldier killed 5 colonists and injured 6 others |
Boston massacre |
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restrictions adopted by American colonists to protect British revenue policies prior to American revolution |
non-importation agreements |
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1773; reduced massive amounts of tea held by British east India company to help them survive financial troubles |
tea act |
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rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established political union among colonies |
committee of correspondence |
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American statesman, political philosopher and founding father; founded sons of Liberty |
Samuel adams |
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1774; set procedures of government in Quebec- replaced temporary government; gave French religious freedom and restored French form of civil law |
Quebec act |
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18th century German auxiliaries contracted for British military service |
hessians |
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siege of Boston; British defeat Americans in revolution |
battle at bunker hill |
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written order instructing law enforcing officials to preform certain tasks |
writs of assistance |
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age of english tenement, addresses questions of origin and society and legitimacy of authority of state over individual |
social contract theory |
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exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries and offenses |
admiralty courts |
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British customs shop ran aground in Rhode Island; sons of Liberty group attacked and burned it |
gaspee affair |
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Prussian born American military officer who trained soldiers in close-order drill |
baron Von Steuben |
