Acts Of The Revolutionary War

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Taxed the import of sugar,wine,coffee, molasses,and other goods. Allowed British officers, not colonial judges and juries, to try offenders

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Sugar Act

1764

Question 1

Declared that American colonist would not be permitted to establish new settlements west of a line drawn through the Appalachian mountains.

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Proclamation of 1763

1763

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Required colonist to pay adirect tax on all paper used. Colonist had to use Stamped Papers for London for all printed materials.

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Stamp Act

1765

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Made colonists house British troops and provide them with food,weapons and supplies.

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Quartering Act 1765

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Declared Parliaments right to make laws for the colonies.

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Declaratory Act

1766

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Taxed the imports of paper,glass,lead and tea. Cut tea taxes in Britain.

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Townsend Acts

1767

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Tried to help the British East India Company by shipping its surplus to the colonies to sell below the price of colonial merchants.

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Tea Act

1773

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Closed Boston’s port to all trade except for food, fuel and provisions for British troops. Expanded powers of British appointed governors and appointed a new governing council in Massachusetts.

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Intolerable Acts

1774

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Magna Carta

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A British document signed in 1295 to form a governmental group called Parliament that gave the representatives the authority to pass laws and veto anything proclaimed by the king. This limited the King’s power.

Question 9

English Bill of Rights

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A set of rights that gave the British people the right to opinion and assemble.

Question 10

French Indian war

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A war fought over the OhioR. Valley between the English and French and native allies to establish trade and economical and geographical power.

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Ohio River Valley

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Land between the Lake Michigan and the Appalachian Mountains that goes along the Ohio River.

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Proclamation on 1763

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And English bill passed that states the no colonist may settle anywhere west of the Appalachian and in the Ohio River Valley.

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Sons of Liberty

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A group of patriots

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Daughters of Liberty

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A group of female patriots that came up with methods of boycotting and substituting the British goods for raw goods.

Question 15

Boston Massacure

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A riot that occurred in December 3,1770 after a British captain did not pay his Whig bill and the clerk charged and the captain and demanded his pay.

Question 16

Paul Revere

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A patriot and one of the minute men who warned the patriots that the British were coming and stopped them at Lexington and Concord.

Question 17

Battle of Lexington and concord

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A British costly victory that was fought between the minute men and the patriots. The patriots held off and lost a few in numbers but stopped the red coats from entering Boston

Question 18

Virginia Resolution

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Virginia wanted independence but needed the support of the other colonies so the representative proposed independence and it was accepted.

Question 19

Continental Congress

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Question 20

“Common Sense”

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An article written by Thomas Paine explaining the pains and the luxuries of living in the Colonies and what struggles the colonies have to confront against the British.

Question 21

Natural rights

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Rights that are given to all people that were given by the Creator and may not be taken away.

Question 22

Unalienable rights

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The right for any human to gain Life,Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Question 23

Declaration of Independence

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Question 24

King George iii

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The current king of Britain during the War.

Question 25

Tyranny

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Question 26

John Locke

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Question 27

Social contract

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