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American revalotion
words and definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| happened in 1776 for independince | declaration of indepenince |
| government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation | Democracy |
| sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies. | stamp act |
| series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. | Intolerable Acts |
| demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. | Boston tea party |
| New Jersey (NJ), Maryland (MD), Virginia (VA), Massachusetts (MA), Rhode Island (RI), Connecticut (CT), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), North Carolina (NC), Georgia (GA), Delaware (DE), South Carolina (SC), and New Hampshire (NH). | The Colonies |