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Chapter 5 - The American Revolution Flashcards

American Heritage - Kimball
Winter 2013

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695006607Taxation without representationrallying cry of the colonists during the Revolutionary period because of the taxes placed on them by a Parliament in which they had no representation
695006608Tea ActLegislation passed by the British government in 1773 designed to give the British East India Company a monopoly on tea in the colonies, the Act led to the infamous Boston Tea Party
695006609Boston Tea PartyOn December 16, 1773, AMerican colonists protested the British tax on tea by dumping 342 crates of British tea into Boston harbor
695006610Committees of correspondenceGroups organized by local colonial governments for the purpose of coordinating written communication with the other colonies. The disseminated the colonial interpretation of British actions amoung the colonies and to foreign governments. The network of committees would later provide the basis for formal political union among the colonies
695020028Continental CongressA body of representatives from the British North American colonies who met to respond to England's Intolerable Acts. They declared independence in July 1776 and later drafted the Articles of Confederation
695020029Declaration of Independence1776 document expressing the desire and intention of the American colonies ot break ties with Britain due to the injustices perpetrated by King George III
695020032Common SenseA political tract written by Thomas Paine that helped convince colonists about the necessity to fight against Britain and to become independent
695020035DemigodBeing half human and half godlike, a trait sometimes wrongly attributed to the Founders

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