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Persuade to do something by using force or threats

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Coerce

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2
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Organization formed to exchange information about British policies and American resistance

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Committee of correspondence

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Organization of colonial woman form to protest British policies

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Daughters of liberty

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4
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Import tax

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Duty(customs)

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5
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Formal complaint

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Grievance

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The right not to be held in prison without first being charged for a specific crime, constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

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Habeaus corpus

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7
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Americans who supports the British

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Loyalist

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Organized body of armed volunteers

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Minutemen

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9
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Americans who sided with the rebels

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Patriot

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10
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Introduction to declaration, constitution, and other official documents

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Preamble

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11
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To cancel

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Repeal

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12
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Secret society formed to oppose British policies

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Sons of liberty

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13
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Court orders that allows officials to make undefined searches

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Writs of assistance

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Proclamation that made law against colonists to settle to the west of the appellation Mountains

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Proclamation of 1763

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Required colonist to put British soldiers in their homes and to provide soldiers food and stuff

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Quartering act

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Parliament put indirect tax on sugar

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Sugar act

17
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-put tax on every paper purchased
Caused colonists too feel like their freedom has been threatened
No taxation without representation

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Stamp act

18
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  • Made parliament have complete authority over colonies

- passed when parliament took away stamp act

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Declactory act

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  • small indirect taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea
  • Gave soldiers right to enter home searching for illegal goods
  • suspended New York assemblies
  • colonists say it went against natural rights
  • protesting thought the colonies
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Townsend acts

20
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-Put tax on tea
-caused Boston tea party
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Tea act

21
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  • Reaction to the Boston tea party
  • forced colonists to pay for the Tea they lost
  • colonies now have a military governer
  • closed bostons port
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Intolerable acts

22
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Why did the southern states refuse to let slaves fight?

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Feared they would revolt

23
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What happened to slavery in the north during the war?

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Took steps to end slavery

24
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How did the Americans pay for the war?

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  • Congress had to plead for money from state

- printed paper money that had very little value

25
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Organized campaign to refuse to bye,or use certain goods and services

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Boycott

26
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What were the articles of Confederation? Why were they written and when?

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The articles of Confederation was a document that was supposed to unite the state under one central government. It was written in 1777 after the revolutionary war.

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Describe the branches of the articles of confederation

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It had one branch of government which was Congress. Their roles were to declare war, raise an army and navy,print money, deal with foreign nations, and make laws

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Describe the design of federal and state government under the articles of confederation

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Federal government had very little power, state government had very high power

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Explain what the land ordinance of 1785 was, and describe three key features of this ordinance

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The land ordinance of 1785 divided lands in the six square mile townships. Each township was divided into one room I’ll grades with three sections. One section beach township was for education

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