| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Required a tax stamp on all printed items, like diplomas, court documents, land titles, contracts, newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards | Stamp Act of 1765 | 85%
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| Main author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 73%
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| July 4th, 1776, colonies declare full separation from the British crown | Declaration of Independence | 70%
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| Wrote Common Sense, criticized British monarchy, argued for American independence | Thomas Paine | 70%
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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 | Sugar Act of 1764 | 68%
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| Requires colonial government to provide barracks and food for British troops | Quartering Act of 1765 | 63%
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| Boston group of people that burnt and destroyed Andrew Oliver, Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty | 60%
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| 1767 Acts, undermined American political instituions | Charles Townshend | 55%
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| A defense force designed to fight a minutes notice | Minutemen | 45%
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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 | Continental Congress | 43%
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| Life, liberty, property | Natural Rights | 43%
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| Provided financial relief for East India Company, by canceling the import duties | Tea Act of May 1773 | 40%
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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 | Virtual Representation | 40%
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| Imposed duties on colonial imports of paper, paint, glass, and tea | Townshend Act of 1767 | 35%
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| Acts that attempted to force Massachusetts to repay that damages of the Boston Tea Party, and submit to imperial authority | Coercive Acts | 33%
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| Act that reaffirmed parliament's "full power and authority" to make laws and studies | Declaratory Act of 1766 | 25%
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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 | Stamp Act Congress | 25%
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| May 1775, Philadelphia, where John Adams led the charge for a Continential Army, led by George Washington | Second Continental Congress | 13%
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| One of the most able men in England, passed the Currency Act, won approval of Sugar Act | George Grenville | 10%
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| Standing committees where communication was set up between Patriots and leaders of other colonies | Committees of Correspondence | 8%
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| "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania", early call to resistance | John Dickinson | 8%
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| 1770, prime minister, repealed Townshend Acts | Lord North | 8%
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| Repudiated parliamentary supremacy and claimed equality for American assembles | Samuel Adams | 8%
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| Earl of Dunmore, 1771, clashed with House of Burgesses, very defiant, promoted slaves joining England | Lord Dunmore | 5%
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| Tribunals governing the high seas and run by British-appointed judges. Prosecuted those accused of breaching Navigation Acts | Vice-Admiralty Courts | 5%
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| A war against the Ohio Shawnees, caused by the absence of the King in America | Dunmore's War | 3%
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| The principle that ultimate power lies in the hands of the electorate | Popular Sovereignity | 0%
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