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24 Cards in this Set
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What are two or more things connected in some way?
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Relationship
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Ex. The Proclamation of 1763 & taxation negatively affected the colonists _______ with Great Britain.
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The act of taxing, or charging people for public and government services
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Taxation
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Patriots cried " No _______ without Representation"
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Having to do with law
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Legal
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The purpose of the Stamp Act was to tax _____ and business papers used in the colonies.
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To cover persons with tar and then with feathers in order to punish them
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Tar and Feather
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Colonists would _____ ___ ______ the tax collectors to protest the Stamp Act
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To refuse to have dealings with a person, country, or group
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Boycott
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Colonists would _______ goods from England in protest to unreasonalble taxation
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To remove something, expecially a law.
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Repeal
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Parliament decided to _______ or remove the Stamp Act in 1766.
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Having to do with money
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Finance
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Charles Townshend was appointed minister of _______
in 1766 & passed new tax laws |
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Money gained from something
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Revenue
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The Townshend Acts were a new source of ______ from the colonies.
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The act of killing a large number of people in a cruel way
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Massacre
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The Boston _________ was really a riot that got out of control and a few colonists wer killed.
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A tax placed on goods brought into a certain place
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Duty
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Frederick North, British Prime Minister wanted to ship tea to America & force the colonies to pay a _________.
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A company that sells or buys the same goods or services as another company
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Competitor
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British merchants paid no tax forcing American __________ out of business
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To establish a rule or law, such as a tax, on a group with less power
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Impose
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Samuel Adams proposed no colonist would accept a tax ________ without colonial consent.
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Objects or goods carried in a ship or some other form of transportation
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Cargo
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The ship arrived in Boston, MA in Nov. 1773 carrying a _______ of tea.
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The act of opposing something
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Resistance
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The colonial __________ to British taxation spread quickly through the colonies
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Anger
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Outrage
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The King and Parliament were ___________ by the events and paid no attention the colonists
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To do or say something in return
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Respond
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The British ________ to the colonists' actions by passing the Intolerable Acts in 1774.
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To disallow something
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Ban
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Intollerable Acts allowed Britain to close the port of Boston for trade, ____ town meetings, and house British troops in people's homes
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A part of a country or region
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Province
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The Canadian ________ of Quebec was extended into the Ohio Valley forcing colonists to govern themselves
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To join together as a group or whole
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Unify
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The colonists reaction to the Kings policies was to _______
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A formal meeting called for a special purpose
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Convention
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Adams invited all colonies to a ____________ in Philadelphia
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Someone who loves his/her own country
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Patriot
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__________ was well educated, leaders in their colonies, and loved his/her own country
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An argument or discussion among persons or a group
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Debate
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The delegates to the 1st Continental Congress _________ in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphis for seven weeks
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The act of giving up on something
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Submission
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The King & Parliament threatened that if the colonies resist, they would be crushed into ___________.
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A group of men trained to be soldiers and who agreed to gather at a minute's notice
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Minutemen
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The _____________ were not trained soldiers but farmers, merchants, and ordinary colonists.
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