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15 Cards in this Set
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Long term causes of the revolution |
1. Poor came 2. Calvinism and later religious freedom 3. Salutary Neglect 4. Democratic institutions 5. Triangular trade 6. Frontier 7. Land owning patterns 8. Colonies not planned by gov't 9. Mobile class system |
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Mercantilism |
Colonies are to aid the mother country and add to its wealth |
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Navigation laws |
Trade goes through England before anywhere else :-* enforce mercantilism |
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Republicanism |
All citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common gold |
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Whigs |
A group of British politic commenders |
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Sons and daughters of liberty |
-Convince tax collectors to quit -protest throughout colonies -tar and feathered collectors, burn or hang people in effigy |
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British East India co. |
Joint stock co. That was going bankrupt b/c of 17 million pounds of unsold tea. |
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Intolerable acts |
A series of punitive laws passed by the British parliment after the Boston tea party |
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Continental congress |
1. Colonies owed no obedience to the intolerable acts 2. Totaly boycott of all British goods and cease exporting goods to britian 3. Pleaded with the king for reconciliation 4. Galloways plan of union |
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Lexington and concord |
-British arrive to seize millitsry supplies -Killed 8 colonists in Lexington -Battle in Concord -Both sides claimed victory |
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Hessians |
Germans hired by George the 3rd |
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Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian regiment |
A proclaimation promising freedom for any enslaved black in VA |
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Profiteers |
Make an excessive or unfair profit |
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Boston tea party |
Sons of liberty dress as Indians and dump 45 tons of tea into the harbor |
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Stamp act |
Internal tax on paper products |
