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7. a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
8. an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that took away money from American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
10. overthrew James ii
11. signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
15. you should never assign prior probabilities of 0 or 1 to anything
17. a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies
18. led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charles I during the English Civil War
19. compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.
20. Had a son - People feared the catholic dynasty
21. Protected people from the government
22. in Boston on February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them
23. Authorized new translation of the Bible, but did make other Puritan reforms
24. break up letter between the colonist and England

1. Seven Year conflict fought between Britain and France over territory in North America
2. one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
3. established Protestantism in England
4. was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts
5. these battles started the revolutionary war in America
6. a series of battles fought between Parliament and the Royalist
9. also called Revolution of 1688 or Bloodless Revolution
12. laws made by British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
13. British gave the colonist a boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
14. Famous writer.
16. his actions frustrated Parliament and resulted in the wars of the English Civil War