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An act declaring that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England.
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1st tax levied by Parliament on colonists The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used including legal documents, licenses, newspapers, even playing cards were taxed.
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An act passed by Parliament explaining that British soldiers are to live in colonists' homes.
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An act of parliament attempting to show authority over the colonies after the suspension of the representative assembly. Colonists protested for their rights. The act was named after Charles Townshend.
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A riot in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob
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A protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into the Boston harbor
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A series of laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party; given the name "Intolerable Acts" by Americans who felt they simply could not "tolerate" such unfair laws
1. closed Boston harbor to trade
2. took away colonists right to trial by jury
3. new Quartering Act -
Known as "the shot heard around the world" because this was the start of America's independence. The colonists used this battle to prove to the British that they should take them seriously.
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A meeting where delegates from the 13 colonies united in an effort to stop the war.
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An attempt made by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain. In the document, colonists pledged their loyalty to the King and spoke of their rights as citizens.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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-Original draft written by Thomas Jefferson
-listed grievances (complaints) against England
-announces American independence. This document inspired the Civil Rights movement, emancipation proclamation, and the French Revolution. -
1st Constitution that established "a firm league of friendship" with a weak national government; Each state had "its sovereignty, freedom, and independence. There was no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade.
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An uprising led by Daniel Shays, who was a Massachusetts farmer, against the federal government.
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A meeting conducted by the 13 colonies delegates of America held in Philadelphia to reconstruct/revise the constitution.
