Unit 2 Vocab Causes of the Revolution

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Intolerable Acts

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Boston port closed; town meetings forbidden; customs officers tried in Britain; new Quartering Act.

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Boycott

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to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest

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Mercantilism

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British Economic policy

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Imposed

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To force someone to obey

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Refusal to obey unjust laws non-violently

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Civil Disobedience

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Rights that cannot be taken away

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Unalienable Rights

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Law requiring colonists to house soldiers.

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Quartering Act

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Common Sense pamphlet aimed to influence support for independence.

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influence more people to join the independence movement.

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Author of Common Sense:

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Thomas Paine

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The Tea Act required colonists to buy tea from the British East India Company.

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buy tea from the British East India Company.