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US History part 1
United States History till1877
| Question | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| what was the sugar act of 1764 | 1764 | tax of sugar |
| stephen hopkins of RI wrote | 1764 | pamplet THE RIGHTS OF COLONIES EXAMINED |
| stamp act of 1765 | 1765 | pay tax to some 50 odd items stamps were attached to |
| thomas hutchinson | (blank) | key leader of the royalist political faction in Mass. |
| popes day | Nov5,1605 | alleged plot by Guy Fawkes-a roman catholic- to blow up parliament |
| thomas hutchinson | (blank) | for the stamp act |
| john dickinson | (blank) | landholder and lawyer began publishing a series of newspaper essays-soon to be turned into a pamplet called Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania |
| John dickinson | (blank) | assailed the townshend's logic |
| tea act of 1773 | 1773 | lord north proposed the bill |
| boston tea party | 1774 | caused a series of legislative bills known as the "coercive acts" |
| king george III | march 1774 | signed the first act known as the Boston port bill-closing the port and making trade illegal until time when local citizens paid for the tea |
| First continental congress | 1774 | protest oppressive parliamentary legislation; votes to boycott trade with britain; defeats galloway plan of the union |
| Second continental congress | 1775 | (blank) |
| continental armys commander and chief | (blank) | george washington |
| john dickinsons "Olive Branch" | 1775 | approved by congress-stated "our breast retain too tender a regard for the kingdom from which we derive our origin" |
| "common sense" | 1776 | by thomas paine |
| "common sense" | 1776 | moving toward independence |