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• Michelle Coons

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What is the Stamp Act?
Pamphlets, play cards, and newspapers had to
have these placed on them .

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What is the Committee of Correspondence ?
News was typically spread in hand-written
letters or printed pamphlets to be carried by
couriers on horseback or aboard ships and taken
to the different colonies.

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When was the Declaration of Independence?
July 4, 1776

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What is boycott?
The refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods.

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What are the Townshend Acts?
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and
tea were applied.

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What is the Declaration of Independence?
The colonists declare their freedom from the
King of England with this document.

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When was the American Revolution?
1775-1783

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What is repeal?
To cancel something, such as a law.

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What are the Intolerable Acts?
Closed the ports. Soldiers must be quartered. No
Town Meetings could occur.

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What is the American Revolution?
The war between the colonists and Great
Britain. The colonist were seeking the right to
govern themselves.

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When did the Boston Tea Party occur?
December 1773

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What is democracy?
A government in which the people have the power
to make political decisions. People vote and
have a choice in their government.

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What was the Boston Tea Party?
On a cold December night, radical townspeople
stormed the ships and tossed 342 chests of tea
into the water. Disguised as Native Americans,
the offenders could not be identified.

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What is colonists reason for leaving England?
The King demanded that all people practice the
same religion.

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When were the Intolerable Acts put in place?
1774

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What is militia?
A group of ordinary people who train for battle.

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What is the Boston Massacre?
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770,
between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs,
stones, and sticks, and a squad of British
soldiers. Several colonists were killed.

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What is Taxation without Representation?
In order to make money after the French and
Indian War the King did this to the colonists.

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When did the Stamp Act occur?
1765

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What is treason?
The crime of fighting against ones own
government.

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