Towards Independence Vocab

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Colonist supporting the King and British cause during the American Revolution.

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Loyalist

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Colonist favoring independence from Britain and war.

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Patriot

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Townshend Acts: Tax on items colonists couldn't produce (glass, paint, tea).

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Tax on glass, paint, tea.

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Intolerable Acts:

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laws punishing colonists by closing trade in Boston, dissolving elected assembly, and imposing military rule.

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Tax on newspapers, legal docs, and licenses?

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The Stamp Act

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Proclamation of 1763:

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Colonists banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Boycott definition:

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Refusal to buy a good or service.

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Law requiring colonists to house British soldiers.

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Quartering Act

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Secretive group of colonists protesting British actions, sometimes violently.

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Sons of Liberty

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To take back or cancel a law

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repeal