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8th Grade Am. History Chapter 5.2-5.3
Terms in Chapter 5.2 - 5.3 Crisis in the Colonies
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11/13/2011

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Stamp Act
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1765 - imposed duties on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice
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Intolerable Acts
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1767 - retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. closed port of Boston, limited town meetings to once a year, quartering troops in homes, British officials would be tried in Canada or Britain
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Quebec Act
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1774 set up a government for Canada, extended the borders of Quebec, and established protection for rights of French Catholics
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Proclamation of 1763
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To protect Indian lands in the west, settlement west of the Appalachians was forbidden. 10,000 British troops sent to enforce.
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Townshend Acts
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1767 taxed goods such as glass, papers, paint, lead, and tea; named for official in change of the British treasury; It taxed goods and gave new powers with writs of assistance to stop smuggling
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Samuel Adams
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Boston leader who had been a failure in business, was a poor public speaker, but talented in organizing people for protests and stirring public support.
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John Adams
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Boston leader who was a school teacher that became a lawyer; weighed evidence before taking action.
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Mercy Otis Warren
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wrote plays that made fun of British officials; writing spurred colonists to action
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Abigail Adams
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helped organize colonial resistance through writing
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Patrick Henry
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Member of the Virgina House of Burgesses whose fiery speeches moved listeners to both tears and anger
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George Grenville
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member of the British Parliament who called British officials cowards for not taxing the colonists in America
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Thomas Gage
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British general who planned a surprise attack on Concord to seize weapons
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Lexington
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70 Minutemen were waiting for the British; 8 colonists killed; "shot heard round the world"
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Concord
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on bridge outside of town 300 Minutemen forced a British retreat. British lost 73 and another 200 wounded or missing.
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Lexington and Concord
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start of the American Revolution
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High cost of the French and Indian War
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reason for Parliament gave for raising colonial taxes after 1763
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First Continental Congress
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1774 delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia; agreed to boycott British goods and stop exporting to Britain; they advised colonies to set up militias
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militia
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an army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
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committee of correspondence
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members regularly wrote letters and pamphlets, reporting to other colonies on events in Massachusetts
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