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23 Cards in this Set
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special search warrant that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods
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writs of assistance
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people who first settle a country
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pioneer
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an army made up of civilians serving temporarliy as soldiers
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militia
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frontier region in virginia and the carolinas between coastal settlement and the appalachian mountains
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backcountry
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people who are killed wounded captured or missing in a war
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casualities
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british proclamation banning further colonial settlements west of the apps. mts. and ordering colonists already living there to move their settlement
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Proclamation of 1763
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(1764) law passed by the British parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar importated by the colonies
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sugar act
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(1767) Law passed by parliament placing duties on certain items imported by the colonists such as.... lead paint glass paper and tea.
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Townshend acts
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secret cocieties in the late 1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors
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sons of liberty
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law passed by the parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items
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stamp act
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another name for king phillip
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metacomet
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protest against tea act in which a group of colonists boarded british teaships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the boston harbor
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boston Tea Party
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incident in which british soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists gathered in front of custom house, killing 5 ppl
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boston Massacre
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secret cocieties in the late 1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors
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sons of liberty
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law passed by the parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items
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stamp act
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another name for king phillip
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metacomet
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protest against tea act in which a group of colonists boarded british teaships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the boston harbor
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boston Tea Party
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incident in which british soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists gathered in front of custom house, killing 5 ppl
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boston Massacre
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stories and images designed to support a particular point of view
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propaganda
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unsuccessful attack by ottawa chief pontiac and hi allies against british forts on the frontier in an attempt to drive out european settlers
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pontiac rebellion
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prime minister
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George Grenville
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plan written by Ben Franklin and other colonial delegates that called for the colonies to unite under a common governing
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Albany Plan of Union
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committees created by Massachusetts House of Reppresentives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting new british laws
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Committees of Correspondence
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