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| Date of the Revolutionary War |
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| Another name for the Revolutionary War |
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1. French and Indian War
2. Salutary Neglect
3. Navigation Acts of 1650
4. Mercantilism
5. Taxation without Representation |
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| The five UNDERLYING CAUSES of the Revolutionary War |
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1. Proclamation of 1763
2. Sugar Act of 1764
3. Quartering Act of 1765
4. Stamp Act of 1765
5. Declaratory Act of 1766
6. Townshend Acts of 1767
7. Tea Act of 1773
8. Intolerable Acts 1774
9. Quebec Act of 1774 |
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| ACTS PASSED THAT ANGERED COLONISTS (There are nine) |
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1. Boston Massacre 1770
2. Boston Tea Party of 1773 |
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| The Two EVENTS THAT FUELED THE WAR |
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| Battle of Lexington and Concord |
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| IMMEDIATE CAUSE of the Revolutionary War |
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| Britain had purposely not enforced their laws on the colonies because they were concentrating on wars. This is called |
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| Required the colonists to transport their goods only on British ships and to export certain "enumerated" goods only to Britain |
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| Taxation Without Representation |
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| Colonies denied right of Parliament, in which no Americans were seated, to impose taxes on Americans |
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| Greenville claimed every member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even colonists. This belief was known as |
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| Prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. |
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| Increased duties on sugar with strict enforecement; first law for raising revenue |
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| Required certain colonies to provide food and shelter for British troops |
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| Required stamps for certain documents to raise revenue |
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| Met in New York in response to the Stamp Act of 1765 |
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| 27 delegates and 9 colonies |
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| Number of delegates and colonies represented at the Stamp Act Congress |
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| Proclaimed that Parliament had the right to impose any law on the colonies and we had to obey it |
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| Light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, and tea (internal tax) |
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| England granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea shipped to colonies; It offered cheap tea (but was still taxed)... so colonists hated it |
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1. Closed Boston port until colonists paid for tea
2. Restricted Town meetings
3. Authorized new, stronger Quartering ACt
4. Ang Eng. soldier who killed an American in the line of duty would be sent to England for trial |
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| The Intolerable Acts of 1774 declared four things |
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| Year the Boston Massacre occurred |
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| Year the Boston Tea Party occurred |
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| Crispus Attucks (he was a mulatto) |
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| First man to die in the Boston Massacre |
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| Number of tea chests dumped into the Boston Harbor |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Letters which kept opposition to British rule alive |
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| Man who created the Committees of Correspondence |
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| "Penman of the Revolution" and "Engineer of the Revolution" |
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| Two nicknames given to Samuel Adams |
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| General serach warrants that Britain used against colonies |
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