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Causes US Revolution
5th gr. History, SOL USI.6
Term | Definition |
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Sons of Liberty | organization founded in the American Colonies to oppose the Stamp Act |
Boston Massacre | incident where British officers fired into a crowd, killing 5 people |
Intolerable Acts | four measures enacted by Britain in retaliation for Colonial acts of defiance |
Declaration of Independence | document which announced the separation of the 13 North American Colonies from Great Britain |
Stamp Act | first attempt by British to raise money by taxing colonial legal papers, newspapers, pamplets, cards, etc. |
Quartering Act | one of the Intolerable Acts in which colonists weere required to house British soldiers |
Boston Tea Party | incident in Boston Harbor in which crates of tea imported from Britain were thrown overboard to protest against British taxation without representation |