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Unit 2
Dr. Colvin History 10 Unit 2
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History
10th Grade
10/02/2012

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Revenue Act
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1762; enforce tax collection
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Proclamation of 1763
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1763; the colonists couldn't expand any further north or west
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Sugar Act
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Enforcing tax on sugar
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Currency Act
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1764; banned colonies from treating paper money as legal tender
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Stamp Act
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1765; had to be a stamp on every document, which showed that the tax had been paid; wide effects because it affected everyone; supposed to cover the cost of British troops in America
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Quartering Act
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1765; colonial governments had to provide barracks and food for British soldiers
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Stamp Act Congress
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1765; met in NYC and talked about how to compromise with regards to the Stamp Act
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Sons of Liberty
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1765; rebel group that burned effigies of the English policymakers
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Declaratory Act
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1766; reaffirmed Parliament's authority to do basically anything
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Townshend Acts
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1767; Townshend Act, Vice-Admiralty Courts Act
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Townshend Act
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1767; the royal government pays the salaries of royal governors, judges, etc.
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Restraining Act
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1767; shut down the New York Assembly
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Lord North repeals Townshend Acts and Boston Massacre
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1770
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Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
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1773; financial relief for the East India Company
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Sam Adams and Correspondence Committees
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1772; talks about rights; Virginia and Massachusetts
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Coercive Acts
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1774; Acts that made Boston pay for the tea, closed the Port of Boston, and allowed Parliament to move trials to other places
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Quebec Act
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1774; allowed Quebec to practice Catholicicism
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Continental Congress
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1774; Americans decided to stop importing British goods, and demanded the repeal of the Coercive Acts
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Galloway's plan
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1774; proposed at the Continental Congress, and proposed a joint Parliament with the English Parliament
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Lexington and Concord
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1775; 1st battles of the Revolutionary War
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