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| French and Indian War (Seven Years War) |
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| war from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy in North America |
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| British statement that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| court orders authorizing British troops to search for smuggled goods during colonial times |
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| favorable balance of trade |
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| value of exports is higher than the value of imports |
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| British law placing a tax on printed colonial matter |
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| colonial group that opposed the Stamp Act and advocated independence |
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| colonial legislature that opposed the Stamp Act |
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| British Act of Parliament declaring its right to tax and legislate over the colonies, 1766 |
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| British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of British soldiers |
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| violent confrontation between British troops and colonists, 1770 |
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| Committees of correspondence |
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| groups organized by the Sons of Liberty to write pieces in support of independence from Great Britain |
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| protest by the Sons of Liberty against the British, 1773 |
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| Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts |
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| British laws in response to the Boston Tea Party |
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| influential 1776 pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that called for independence from Great Britain |
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| earliest (1754) plan to unify the colonies, spearheaded by Benjamin Franklin |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| document from 1776 explaining why the American colonies were separating from Great Britain |
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| another word for a legislature |
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