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| rebellion against political authority |
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| the economic theory that all parts fo an eonomy should be coordnated for the group of the whole state; hence, that colonial economics should be subordinated for the benefit of an empire |
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| to decrease in value, as in the decline of purchasing power of money |
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| taxes placd onn imported goods, often to raise prices and thus protect domestic producers. |
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| to pledge proprety to a creditor as security for a loan or debt |
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| In Brittish law, special administrative courts designed to handle maritime cases without a jury |
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| the political theory that a class of persons is represented in a lawmaking body without direct vote |
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| pledges to boycott, or decline to purchase, certain go |
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| a person of mixe african and european ancestry |
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| a customs tax on the export or import of goods |
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| a systematic program or particular materials designed to spead certain ideas; sometimes but nor always the term implies the use of manipulative or deceptive means |
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| an organized refusal to deal with some person,organization, or product |
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| an increase in the supply of currency relative to the goods available, leading to a decline in the purchasing power of money |
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| to leave official or military service without permission |
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| wealthy president of the continental congress and "king of smugglers" |
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| british minister who raised a storm of protest by passing the stamp act |
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| legislation passed in 1765 but repealed the next year, after colonial resistance made it impossible to enforce |
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| sons and daughters of liberty |
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| women and men who enforced the nonimportation agreements, sometimes by coercive means |
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| "champagne charly" townshend |
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| minister whose clever attempt to impose import taxes nearly succeded but eventually brewed trouble for britain |
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| allege leader of radical protesters killed in boston massacre |
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| stubborn ruler, lustful for power; served by compliant ministers like Lord North |
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| zealous defender of the common people's rights and organizer of underground propaganda committiees |
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| event organized by disguised "iniand" to sabotage british support of british east inda company monopoly |
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| harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the boston port act |
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| harsh measures of retaliation for a tea party, including the boston port act |
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| british royal governor who encouraged runaway slaves to hoin his army |
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| first continental congress |
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| body, led by john adams, that issued a declaration of rights and ordered the association to boycott all british goods |
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| nineteen-year-old major general in the revolutionary army |
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| organizational genius who turned raw colonial recruits into tough professional soldiers |
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| legislation that required colonists to feed and shelter british troops and led to suspension of the new york legislature upon its refusal to obey |
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| the set of parliamentary laws, first passed in 1650, that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of britain |
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| the term for products, such as tabacco, taht could be shiped only to england and not to foreign markets |
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| hated british courts in which juries were not allowed and defendants were assumed guilty until proven innocent |
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| the item taxed under the townshed acts that generated the greatest colonial resistance |
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| commitees of correspondance |
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| underground networks of communication and propraganda, established by smaual adams, that sustained colonial resistance |
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| religion that was granted toleration in the trans-Allegheny west by the quebec act, arousing deep colonial hostility |
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| the body that chose george washington commander fo the continental army |
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| the british colony that americans invaded in the hopes of adding it to the rebellious thirteen |
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| the inflammatoru pamphlet that demanded independance and heaped scorn on "the royal brute of great britain" |
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| the document that provided a lengthy explanation and justification |
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| the term by which the american patriots were commonly known, to distinguish them from the american "tories" |
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| another name for american tories |
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| the church body most closely linked with tory sentiment, except in virginia |
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| the river valley that was focus of britains early military strategy and the scene of burgoynes surrender ar saratoga in 1777 |
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| term for the alliance of catherine the great of russia an dother european powers who did not declare war but assumed a hostile neutrality toward britain |
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| in addition to washingtons army, the british defeat at yourktown was brought about by |
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| the french navy under admiral de grasse |
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| early maryland and virginia settlers had difficulty creating them and even more difficulty making them last |
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| primary cause of death among tabacco-growing settlers |
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| immigrants who recieved passage to america in exchange for a fixed term of labor |
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| maryland and virginia's system or granting land to anyone who would pay trans atlantic passage for laborers |
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| maryland and virginia's system or granting land to anyone who would pay trans atlantic passage for laborers |
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| fate of many nathaniel bacons followers, through not of bacon himself |
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| English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade in 1698 |
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| uprisings that occure in new york city in 1712 and in south carolina in 1739 |
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