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Regulating value of foreign coins according to silver content
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Ordered royal governors to veto any paper issues
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Most popular evangelist, born in England.
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Catholic governor of Florida promised freedom to fugitive slaves, but did not follow through. As a result the Native American slave population rose up against the white population.
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A war fought by Britain against the French and their Native American allies, part of the conflict known in Europe as the Seven Years' War. Britain emerging victorious.
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Ships of neutral countries could not trade with ports in which they
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It ended The Seven Year's War
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This honored the promises made to Delaware and Iroquois
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Threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy
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Replaced Molasses Act of 1733 as well as Vice-admiralty courts.
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This was the first direct tax on American colonies. It stated that all shipments must bear a stamp.
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Attended Yale
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Taxed Paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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This act created Board of Customs and Commissioners
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On a cold winter day some British soldiers were patrolling streets. Shots were fired and when the smoke cleared, five Bostonians and two boys laid dead. An interesting fact is that John Adams represented soldiers.
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This act was not enacted to generate revenue, but it
Proposed to give monopoly to East India Company on direct
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Abolished property ownership as tests of citizenship. It also protected citizens from imprisonment for debt.
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General Horatio Gates jumps on Burgoyne at Saratoga. This was fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War. In the end, Britain surrendered.
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Demanded property taxes to be reduced. This was a revolutionary war consisting of four thousand rebels in an uprising against economic and civil rights injustices.
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He was a popular choice to be president after Madison and was
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55 delegates came together to create a government from scratch.
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This established a federal judiciary system, Federal District Court, and Circuit Court.
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Hamilton’s whiskey tax is a burden on western farmers, so Pennsylvania adopted protest methods from Revolutionary War
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Between John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, Thomas Pinckney, John Adams barely won presidency. Thomas Jefferson became Vice President.
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This treaty included compensation for ships that had been seized, opened trade in India, evacuated western forts, and left no word of Impressment.
