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Parliament passed this act that taxed sugar and coffee
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Parliament passed this act, which taxed any paper product
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with snow balls. Five people died.
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Some colonists hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea
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The war that became known as the American Revolution
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-government's duty to protect the people's natural rights
-people have the right to "alter or abolish" unjust governments
-popular sovereignty states that all government power comes from the people -
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-There was a separation of powers among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches, a concept borrowed from Montesquieu
-They saw the government in terms of a social contract in which "We the people of the United States" entered
