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unit 7

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Smugglers   people who tried to avoid taxes  
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Stamp Act   a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents  
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Propaganda   material designed to sway opinion for or against a person or ideas/one-sided  
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Declaratory Act   a document that stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonists  
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Townshend Acts   placed duties on grass, lead, paints, paper, and tea  
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Proclamation of 1763   to avoid more conflict in 1685 King George the third passed a law banning British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. It also ordered settlers to leave the upper Ohio River Valley  
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Treaty of Paris   a peace agreement that officially ended the French and Indian War  
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Boycott   people who refuse to buy British goods  
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Stamp Act Congress   issued a declaration that the Stamp Act was a violation of their rights and liberty  
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Boston Tea Party   a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more that 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor  
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Boston Massacre   an incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 people  
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Standing Army   an army that remains in a particular area to control or protect it  
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Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts   laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and the tighten government control of the colonies  
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Committees of Correspondence   committees created by the Mass. House of Representatives in the 1760's to help towns and colonies share information about resisting British Laws  
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Sons of Liberty   a secret society colonists formed used violence to frighten tax collectors  
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