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- 3. creating new customs duties on common items, like lead, glass, paint, and tea, instead of direct taxes
- 5. Crispus Attucks was killed during this event between colonist and British soldiers in New England
- 6. the leader of the Continental Army and first President of the United States
- 8. a significant victory for the Continental army which led to the alliance with France
- 9. the intial battle between colonists and British troops over the intolerable acts in Massachusetts
- 12. the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the American Revolution
- 14. tax on the importation of refined sugar and cuts to molasses
- 16. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, argued for independence by denouncing monarchy and challenging the logic behind the British Empire
- 17. known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
- 18. clothing quickly became a marker of one’s virtue and patriotism, and women were an important part of this cultural shift
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- 1. philosopher whose ideas of about government shaped the American Revolution, father of liberalism.
- 2. took the British crown in 1760 and implemented authoritarian policies on the colonies
- 4. resolution drafted by Thomas Jefferson to severe the alliance between Britian and the colonies
- 5. the final battle of the Revolution that left Gen. Cornnwallis to surrender to Washington
- 7. act required that many documents be printed on paper that had been stamped to show the duty had been paid, including newspapers, pamphlets.
- 10. restricted colonies from producing paper money
- 11. preceding the Constitution these article created a limited government for the colonies
- 13. colonists who supported British rule and sided with the British in the American Revolution
- 15. political protest by the Sons of Liberty to toss British tea in to the harbor