APUSH Week 4 IDs

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Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts 1774

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Included a new Quartering Act for housing British troops in American dwellings, reviving anger from the earlier Quartering Act of 1765.

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First Continental Congress (1774)

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Convention of delegates from the colonies to discuss their response to the Intolerable Acts.

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Quebec Act (1774)

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Extended Quebec's boundary to the Ohio River, recognized Catholicism, and established a non-representative government.

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Historical Significance of Quebec Act

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Colonists feared a precedent for non-representative government and resented border expansion into denied territory.

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Second Continental Congress (1775)

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Managed the colonial war effort, moved towards independence, adopted the Declaration of Independence, acted as the de facto national government.

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Olive Branch Petition & its rejection 1775

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Final offer of peace to Britain, rejected by Parliament, leading to the American Prohibitory Act forbidding trade with the colonies.

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Declaration of Independence (1776)

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Document establishing the US as an independent nation, adopted on July 4, 1776.

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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

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Pamphlet attacking the British monarchy and calling for American independence.

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Articles of Confederation (1781)

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First American constitution establishing a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress.

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Newburgh Conspiracy 1783

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Attempt by Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton to obtain taxation authority for the Treasury, stopped by George Washington.