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18 Cards in this Set
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Militia
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An army made up of civilians serving temporarily as soldiers.
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Unsuccesful attack by Ottowa chief Pontiac and his allies against Britsh Forts on the northwestern frontier in an attemp to drive out European settlers.
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Sugar Act
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Law passed by British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.
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Boycott
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To rufuse to buy certain goods; method often used in protest movements.
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Sons of Liberty
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Secret societies formed in the mid-1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors.
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Townshed Acts
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Law passes by parliament placing duties on certian items imported by the colonists.
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Daughters of Liberty
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Women's group that supported the colonies' resistence to the British by aiding boycotts and other measures.
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Propoganda
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Stories and images designed to support a paticular point of view.
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Boston Tea Party
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Protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
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Albany Plan of Union
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Plan written by Ben Franklin and other colonial delegates that called for the colonies to unit under a common governing body; never passed.
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Proclamation of 1763
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British proclamation banning further colonial settlement west of the Appalachain Mnts and ordering colonists already living there to move.
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Commitees of Correspondence
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Commitees appreved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share info about resisting the new British laws.
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Stamp Act
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Las passed by Parliament that raised rax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newpapers, legal documents, licenses.
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repeal
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To abolish.
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writs of assistance
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Special speech warrents that allowed colonial tax collectors to search for smuggled goods.
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Boston Massacre
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Incident in which British soldiers fired into a group of colonists, killing 5 people
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Tea Act
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Law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its
low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party |
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Intolerable Acts
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Four laws passed by Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.
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