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  1. 3. Taxes on sugar, molasses, silk, wine, coffee, and indigo; colonists protest with the saying "No taxation without representation"
  2. 4. Required stamps to be bought and placed on most printed materials; first tax directly on colonists and not just trade; as a result Sons of Liberty form to protest; colonists boycott British goods and Britain overturn the taxes
  3. 5. Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe; told the story of a slave and his owner
  4. 7. Declared loyalty to the king and asked him to call off hostilities until things could be peacefully resolved; King George refused to even look at it
  5. 9. First official form of government in the United States with a small federal (national) government
  6. 11. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution (most strongly supported by the Anti-Federalists)
  7. 12. Put taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea; response was increasing boycott of British goods; Britain began dissolving colonies' governments and assemblies
  8. 14. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
  9. 15. Required colonists to provide housing for British troops
  10. 17. Officially ends the American Revolution; Britain recognizes the United States as a new nation
  11. 18. Ended the debate about slaves and representation. Established that each slave would count as 3/5 of a white person for both representation and tax purposes.
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  1. 1. Banned slavery in the United States
  2. 2. Territory bought under Thomas Jefferson's presidency from France for $15 million. Greatly expanded the size of the United States. Corps of Discovery went out explore.
  3. 6. Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the king; persuaded many colonists to join the Revolutionary cause
  4. 8. Ended the War of 1812, restored prewar boundaries and returned issues to the "status quo"
  5. 10. Issued by Abraham Lincoln, freed slaves in Confederate states but did not address the issue of slavery in border states, changed the purpose of the war to preserving the Union AND freeing slaves
  6. 13. Laws created to limit the freedom/rights of blacks. Treated blacks as property.
  7. 16. Laws passed in response to the Boston Tea Party; shut down Boston's harbor until they paid for the destroyed tea