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Revenue
Meaning: Income of money towards a colony
- The British needed revenue
- Colonies had to pay for debt
- contribute towards government
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Boycott
Meaning: A sit-in or refusal to buy something
- Boycott established in NY first
- protest to stop the act (stamp act)
- a petition was made and signed
- sons and daughter of liberty involved
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Sons of Liberty
Meaning: Employed lawyers, merchants, and craftspeople
- affected with the stamp act
- protested in the stamp act
- made trades with leaders
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Townshend Acts
Meaning: a plan proposed in 1767 for kings and government
- made by king finance minister
- plan to raise revenue
- an unfair burden to some colonist
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Tools of Protest
Meaning: Colonist plan in action to start an act
- Samual Adams took part
- colonial leaders started a peaceful protest
- A boycott spread through colonies
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Samual Adams
Meaning: A son of Liberty and government official
- one of the many to protest
- resist British control
- Fought in war with multiple colonies
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Boston Massacre
Meaning: a war started with an army (lobsters) and ending with 5 people dead.
- included 1,000 British soldiers(lobsters)
- resisted British control(the people)
- Aspir Crisp was killed in the war(slave)
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Intolerable Acts
Meaning:All acts having an impact on British revenue
- A Series of laws to punish people
- Massachusetts stood as a warning
- British called the acts coercive acts
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First constitutional Congress
Meaning: A congress to vote against acts in the making and embed others.
- included delegates from other colonies
- voted on banned laws
- some congress were chosen to add delegates
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Midnight of Paul Revere
Meaning: A leader that stood against acts in the past wanting a change
- Boston silversmith and messenger
- spread the news about troop movement
- one of the sons of liberty
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Causes of the Revolution
Philosophy- salutary neglect- colonies had been left alone for so long, now Britan came back to actively control the colonies.
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Why so many taxes
Prominent wanted the colonies to help pay for the military actions that had taken place in the colonies frontier defense
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