What are the four parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Preamble, Natural Rights, List of Grievances, Resolution
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What is The Sugar Act?
It put tax on refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.
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Required colonist to buy and place tax stamps on many kinds documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
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Who was the king of Britain during the rise to revolution to America?
King George |||
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What does the Preamble explain?
Why the continental congress drew up the declaration.
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The declaratory act?
The department of parliament had the right to tax colonies and make decisions for them.
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Required American colonists to buy tea from British East India Company. The tax on tea was still in place.
What is The Tea Act?
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What did the British do when colonist protested the stamp act?
The stamp act was repealed
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What are the 3 unalienable rights?
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
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Name two of the five Coercive Acts.The Boston Port Act, The Quartering Act, The Quebec Act, The Imperial Administration of Justice Act, The Massachusetts Government Act
Name two of the five Coercive Acts.
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Placed new taxes on glass, paper, lead, paints and tea
What is the Townshend Act?
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How did British officials prevent smuggling?
The Townshend Act
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Name two Grievances.
Name two Grievances.He has refused his assent to laws (king), most wholesome and necessary for the public good; He has dissolved representatives houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness; His invasions on the rights of people; He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies without the Consent of our legislature, etc.
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Intolerable Acts.
What is another name for the Coercive Acts?
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How did the colonist retaliate to the taxation on tea?
They dumped chest of tea into the Boston harbor
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How did the British respond towards the Boston tea party