Acts & Taxes
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What act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?
Stamp Act
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Great Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763 after the ___ war.
French & Indian
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Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
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In response to unpopular laws and acts of the British King and Parliament, the ___ met in Philadelphia in Sept. 1774.
Continental Congress
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the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was:
Thomas Jefferson
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The British government tried to stop smuggling with the:
Sugar Act
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George Grenville's first action in the colonies was to take action against:
smugglers
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In the mid-1770's, King George declared that the colonies were in a "state of ___."
Rebellion
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The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created:
equal
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Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?
Loyalists
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One result of the Boston Massacre was the repeal of the ___ Acts.
Townshend
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The Coercive Acts were passed to punish the colonists in Boston and other parts of Massachusetts for the
Boston Tea Party
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The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of the:
Appalachian Mountains
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Who ran the first post office established by the Second Continental Congress?
Benjamin Franklin
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Colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre killings as:
propaganda
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Which act gave the British Parliament the right to tax and make decision for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"?
Declaratory Act
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Who opposed any compromise with the American colonists?
George III
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King George rejected the ___, in which the Second Continental Congress made a last attempt to avoid war with Great Britain.
Olive Branch Petition
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These united protesters who were opposed to British rule.
Committees of correspondence
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Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American independence?
Patriots
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“[January 2, 1766.] At Philadelphia, the Heart-and-Hand Fire Company has expelled Mr. Hughes, the stamp man for that colony. The freemen of Talbot county, in Maryland, have erected a gibbet [gallows] before the door of the court-house, twenty feet high, and have hanged on it the effigies of a stamp informer in chains . . . till the Stamp Act shall be repealed; and have resolved, unanimously, to hold in utter contempt and abhorrence every stamp officer, and every favorer of the Stamp Act, and to "have no communication with any such person, not even to speak to him, unless to upbraid him with his baseness." So triumphant is the spirit of liberty everywhere. Such a union was never before known in America.” In this excerpt from his diary, how does John Adams say Americans are expressing their feelings about the Stamp Act?
They are dramatically showing their opposition.
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“I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies, from their first settlement to this time; and I find every one of them founded on this principle, till the Stamp-Act administration. All before, are calculated to regulate trade, and preserve or promote a mutually beneficial intercourse between the several constituent parts of the empire; and though many of them imposed duties on trade, yet those duties were always imposed with design to restrain the commerce of one part, that was injurious to another, and thus to promote the general welfare. The raising a revenue thereby was never intended . . .” In the past, according to this 1767 excerpt from an anonymous letter John Dickinson wrote to the Pennsylvania Gazette, the English parliament made laws for America _____.
to regulate trade
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legal document permitting searches
writ of assistance
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These prevented supplies from being shipped to Boston.
Intolerable Acts
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