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Nov 20, 2012
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Sugar Act
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To raise money top pay off war debt.taxed shugar and molass
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Stamp Act
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taxed important documents
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Declaratory Acts
Definition
reashure parliament supreme power over the colonies
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Townshend Acts
Definition
To raise money to pay off war debt taxed on papper, paint, led, glass,and tea
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Quartering Act
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British soilders needed in the colonies to keep order,protest the take collectors.where alowed to live with colonist with or without permition
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Tea Act
Definition
To raise money and punish colonists
lowerd the prices of tea and cut out the midile man
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Intolerable Act
Definition
Closed the ports of Boston till the until colonists payed for the descroided tea and replased the electoral counsal with an apointed one
* Altered the MA charter to band town meetings.
*Relpace elected councle with and apointed one
*Incresae governors power
*Protected british officals accused of doing a crime.
*Allow british officers to houise troops in private dewelings
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quarter
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to house the British soldiers
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repeal
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to take away
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boycott
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refuse to buy something
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petition
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sign paper against a law, policy, or action
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patriot
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person who was against the King of England
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loyalist
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person who supports the King of England
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Sons of Liberty
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Developed after the Stamp Act, male group who opposed British Policies
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Daughters of Liberty
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developed after the Townshend Acts, female group like the Sons of Liberty, opposed to England
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militia
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citizen army
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minutemen
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men in the militia ready to fight in a minute
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communities of correspondance
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samuil adams encoragd towns to set up commuint to comunicate with outher towns
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arsenal
Definition
place where guns and weapons are stored
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Writs of Assistance
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allow britsh ofisers to serch ships with out reasons
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Stamp Act Congress
Definition
9 colonies sent delegates
Met in New York City
drew up petition to King George
declared King had no right to tax with out representation
first time ever the colonists gather to discuss England
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1st Continental Congress
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Boston Massacre
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coased 5 towns people to die
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Boston Tea Party
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colonists dressed like indians and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor
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Lexington & Concord
Definition
they marked the start of the revolutionary war and it was a running battile
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Fort Ticonderoga
Definition
May 1975, New York
Stratedgy- capture cannons and supplies
Leader- Ethan Allan & the Green Mountain Boys
Colonist Won!
Results-Fort Captured with no shots fired=SUCCESS!
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Battle of Bunker Hill
Definition
June 1775, Charlestown Penninsula Breeds Hill
Strategy-take control of hills to surround British Troops
Leader- William Howe (B) William Prescott(C)
Britich Won
EFFECTs-colonists ran out of gun powder, 1st major battle 1000 killed,wounded, captured
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Dorchester Heights
Definition
January 1776, Boston Area
Strategy-Colonists have Boston under siege
Leaders-Henry Knox (C) George Washington (1st battle)
Colonists WIN!!!
No shots were fired, No British were killed
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Thomas Paine
Definition
Wrote COMMON SENSE in opposition to the British
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George Washington
Definition
Leader/Commander of the Contiental Army
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2nd Continental Congress
Definition
Met in Philadelphia in 1775
Served as America's Government
Delegates include: John and Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Robert Livingston
Created Army-naming George Washington Commander
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Olive Branch Petition
Definition
June 1775
Most colonists hoped to stay loyal to King-Offered as Peace Treaty to England to Stop the War-King George Refused Treaty and punished the colonists by blocking ports and hiring thousands of German soldiers to fight for Britain
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non important agrements
Definition
agrement to stop im porting goods
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invashion of canada
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the decloration of independens
Definition
need to be writen by state reasons to let the world know also declaring the independens changed the corse of the war
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