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3. Delegates of the Continental Congress agreed that the time had come to officially declare the colonies’ independence from Great Britain.
5. He wrote about the “social contract” that people had with their government
7. Was a time of great philosophical thought, scientific invention, and discovery.
8. American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea
12. British troops had been sent to Boston to enforce tax laws and the colonists resented the British troops
13. Remained loyal to Britain because of cultural and economic ties
14. A pamphlet made critical arguments for declaring independence from England
15. a series of laws passed by the British in 1774 enacted to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party

1. Affected anyone who needed to buy printed materials; had to be stamped showing they were from London
2. Military leader who participated in the French and Indian War
4. Believed in complete independence from Great Britain
6. American colonists who were ready to fight at a minute's notice; these soldiers fought against the British army at the Battle of Lexington and Concord
9. Colonists who tried to stay as uninvolved in the war as possible
10. sole control of the supply of a good or service
11. France and England were competing to set up forts and colonize the Ohio River Valley.