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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stamp Act | Britain's first tax on American colonies requiring a special stamp on all printed paper goods that you have to pay for |
| Quartering Act | British laws forcing American colonies to provide a shelter, food, and supply for the British soldiers |
| Intolerable Act | A series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1777 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party, by closing the Boston harbor, curtailing self government and more |
| Tea Act | A British law granting the financial struggling East India company a monopoly tea sales in the American colonies allowing it to sell tea directly and cheaply and even undercutting smuggles tea |
| Writs of Assistance | A general search warrant used by British customs officials in the American colonies authorizing them to search any home, shop, location or item |
| Boycott | A collective refusal to buy, use, deal with a person, organization, or country. Its a form of protest |
| Parliament | A country's supreme legislative body, and assembly of elected representatives who meet to debate, make, amend, repeal laws, over sees government, approves spending, and functions similar to a Congress or Senate. |
| Taxation without representation | The principle that imposing taxes on people without their consent, given through elected represents, is unfair |
| The Stamp Act Congress | The first unified colonial gathering in 1765 where representatives from 9 American colonies met in New York to protest agents the stamp act by declaring " no taxation without representation" and drafting " Declaration of Rights and Grievances" petition |
| Common Sense | Written by Thomas Paine aruguing that England is to for them to rule the colonies effectivly, the monarchy was corupt and unreasonable. |
| Declaration of Independence | Historic Document adopted in July 4 1776, by the second continental congress saying that the 13 American colonies are separating from Britain listing complaints about king George and their new natural rights |
| Natural rights | Rights that every person is born with and intended to like life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the government cant take this away |
| Boston Massacre Engraving | This is a metal engraving art piece made in 1770 by Paul Revere, Its titled "The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street," and shows British soldiers firing into a crowd of colonist |
| Paul Revere | was a Boston silversmith, industrialist, and prominent patriot leader during the American revolution |
| John Locke | was an influential English philosopher and physician widely regarded as " Father Liberalism" and a figure of the Enlightenment |
| Thomas Paine | was an English born American political philosopher and a writer who became the one of the most influential figures of the American and french revolutions he is also often know for " The Father of American Revolution" |
| Thomas Jefferson | was an American founding father, the principle father of the declaration of independence and the third president of the United states |
| Boston Massacre | was a deadly conflict on March 5th 1770 On king Street in Boston where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist killing 5 and was a huge turning point the fueled the anti-British feeling and helped spark the American revolution |
| Boston Tea Party | was a political protest the happened on December 16 1773 in Boston where around 92,000 pounds of tea were poured into the Boston harbor |
| The Battle of Lexington | was the first military engagement for the American Revolutionary War on April 19 1775 that had the historic shot heard around the world |
| 3 Prong Attack NYS | was a British military strategy in 1777 designed to end the American Revolutionary war by isolating New England from the rest of the colonies |
| Battle of Saratoga | was a huge turning point in the American Revolutionary war because the American army defeated the three prong attack and boosted their confidence and hope and got the french on their side |
| Battle of Yorktown | was when the British army fully surrendered to American securing Americas independence and ending The American Revolutionary war |
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