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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stamp act | first tax on colonists a tax on all paper goods |
| parliament | is great brittains law making body parliament decide the laws tax colonists but not great brittain |
| intolerable acts | laws/punishemnts put on colonists |
| townshend act | a tax on glass lead paint and paper |
| continental congress | a group of individuals from each state to act as representitives |
| Declaration Of Independence | was colonists way to say the were no longer part of the brittish government published july 4 1776 |
| Thomas Jefferson | was the author of the Declarartion Of Independence |
| King George III | was the ruler of great brittain from 1760 to 1820 considered by colonists to be an evil tyrant |
| representative government | a form of ruling where the people selct officials |
| boston tea party | was where the colonists dressed as native americans and dumped 340+ barrels of tea into the boston harbor |
| boston massacre | a riot in which the colonists taunted the redcoats throwing snowballs at them. two unarmed colonists killed of eight redcoats six found innocent further inraging colonists |
| reason for taxes | brittain needed taxes for war |
| quartering act | an act inwhich colonists were forced to house brittain soldiers |