Early Causes of the American Revolution

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The _______________________ was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

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Sons of Liberty

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The _________________________________ was land west of the Appalachian Mountains that was a scene of rivalry between France and Great Britain because both countries claimed it.

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Ohio River Valley

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The ________________________________was a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of TEA into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on TEA.

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Boston Tea Party

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The ______________________________ were a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to PUNISH the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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Coercive (INTOLERABLE) Acts

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The __________________ was SIGNED in 1763 at the conclusion of the French & Indian War and required France to give up all of its North American colonies.

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Treaty of Paris

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________________________ was built for protection against the French in the valley of the Little Tennessee River. Served as a trading post for British colonies and the Cherokee Indians. Options: Ohio River Valley, Proclamation of 1763, Boston Tea Party, Fort Loudoun.

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Fort Loudoun

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The ____________________________ was signed & Issued by King George III and proclaimed that colonist were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Proclamation of 1763

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The ________________________ was a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in Boston, where troops fired at and killed several people.

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Boston Massacre

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The _________________________ was a series of LAWS passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

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Townshend Acts

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The __________________________ was an ACT of the British Parliament in 1765 that obtained revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty (tax)on newspapers and other documents.

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Stamp Act