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The most effective protest method in getting England to repeal its tax laws.
What is boycott?
What was the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
To declare the colonies independent of Great Britain.
What did the Tea Act allow?
It created a monopoly so that tea could be sold cheaply, but only by the British East India Tea Company.
What led to the repeal of the Stamp Act?
A group of London merchants complained that their trade suffered from the colonial boycott.
Told colonists to prepare for war and train a militia.
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These acts punished Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
This battle was a moral victory for the Americans even though they lost; they were able to inflict heavy losses on the British and withstand a frontal assault. They only lost because they ran out of ammunition.
Battle of Bunker Hill.
Where and at what meeting did the colonies begin to address the problem of the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
Philadelphia, First Continental Congress
When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, it simultaneously passed this act.
The Declaratory Act.
Authorized the creation of the Continental Army and George Washington as Commander-in-Chief.
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These 3 Unalienable Rights were expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
What two men were the British hoping to capture in Lexington?
Samuel Adams and John Hancock
What is the best explanation for why the group, Sons of Liberty, formed?
To protest unfair taxation.
On the night of December 16, 1773, colonists disguised as Native Americans sneaked onto three tea-filled ships from the British East India Company and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
Georgia refused to send a delegate.
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This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, encouraged the colonists to fight for independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
What were the British hoping to gain by going to Concord?
Military supplies.
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson argued in the Declaration of Independence that governments derive (get) their power from whom?
The people who agree to be governed.
They sent a petition known as the Olive Branch Petition.
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The colonists had no voice in parliament where new laws and taxes were developed and imposed on the colonies. As a result, the colonists began to use the slogan "____________________".
No taxation without representation.
Why did the King of England start to tax the colonists?
To help pay for the French and Indian War.
German mercenaries who fought for pay.
The Hessians.
What are 3 main points Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, makes about Great Britain’s rule over the colonies?
1) Unite against Britain
2) Why is a small country ruling such a large area
3) The colonies should now break away
Was held in 1775 after a major battle at Lexington and Concord had already taken place.
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