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Created to replace the ignored Molasses Act of 1733, made tax 3 pence per gallon rather than 6, tightened custom security
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Sugar Act of 1764
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Tribunals governing the high seas and run by British-appointed judges. Prosecuted those accused of breaching Navigation Acts
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Vice-Admiralty Courts
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Required a tax stamp on all printed items, like diplomas, court documents, land titles, contracts, newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards
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Stamp Act of 1765
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The idea that colonists were already represented in Parliament, because there were a few merchant and sugar plantations in the British government
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Virtual Representation
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Requires colonial government to provide barracks and food for British troops
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Quartering Act of 1765
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October 1765, delegates from 9 colonial assemblies met in NYC to counter new tax acts, ended up petitioning for the Stamp Act to be repealed
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Stamp Act Congress
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Boston group of people that burnt and destroyed Andrew Oliver, Boston Tea Party
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Sons of Liberty
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Life, liberty, property
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Natural Rights
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Act that reaffirmed parliament's "full power and authority" to make laws and studies
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Declaratory Act of 1766
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Imposed duties on colonial imports of paper, paint, glass, and tea
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Townshend Act of 1767
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Standing committees where communication was set up between Patriots and leaders of other colonies
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Committees of Correspondence
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Provided financial relief for East India Company, by canceling the import duties
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Tea Act of May 1773
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Acts that attempted to force Massachusetts to repay that damages of the Boston Tea Party, and submit to imperial authority
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Coercive Acts
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12 colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia to discuss what was best for America's interest, deciding to attempt to repeal to Coercive Acts
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Continental Congress
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A war against the Ohio Shawnees, caused by the absence of the King in America
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Dunmore's War
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A defense force designed to fight a minutes notice
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Minutemen
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May 1775, Philadelphia, where John Adams led the charge for a Continential Army, led by George Washington
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Second Continental Congress
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July 4th, 1776, colonies declare full separation from the British crown
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Declaration of Independence
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The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate
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Popular Sovereignity
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One of the most able men in England, passed the Currency Act, won approval of Sugar Act
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George Grenville
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"Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania", early call to resistance
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John Dickinson
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1767 Acts, undermined American political instituions
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Charles Townshend
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1770, prime minister, repealed Townshend Acts
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Lord North
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Repudiated parliamentary supremacy and claimed equality for American assembles
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Samuel Adams
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Earl of Dunmore, 1771, clashed with House of Burgesses, very defiant, promoted slaves joining England
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Lord Dunmore
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Wrote Common Sense, criticized British monarchy, argued for American independence
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Thomas Paine
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Main author of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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