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15 Cards in this Set
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capital resources
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goods made b people and used to produce other goods and services
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natural resources
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What the colonists exported
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The Stamp Act of 1765
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Required the colonists to pay taxes(buy stamps) for paper documents.
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Committees of Correspondence
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Committees in the colonies which informed each other of important political events.
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The French and Indian War
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Put an end to France's power in North America
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The First Charter of the Virginia Company of London
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A document which gave England claim to the Ohio River Valley
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Townshend Acts
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Required the colonies to pay a tax of English imports such as paint,lead, paper, and tea
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Treaty of Paris of 1763
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An agreement which gave the English almost all of the French lands in Canada and east of the Mississippi
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The English government
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Parliament
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Why the colonists felt it was unfair that England tax them
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The colonists had no representation in Parliament
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Why Parliament wanted to tax the colonies
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England wanted the colonies to help pay for the French and Indian War
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Indians
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Helped the French fight the English and colonists
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manufactured goods
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what the colonists imported
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tobacco
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a highly valued barter item frequently used by the colonists as money
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credit
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buying a good or service and paying for it later
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