U.S. History - Revolutionary Era

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British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically

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Salutary Neglect

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Fought between 1754 and 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its American Indian allies, gaining control of the eastern North America

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French and Indian War

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1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials

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Stamp Act

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Organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other British laws and taxes; often used violent actions

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Sons of Liberty

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Treaty made between Great Britain and France that ended the French and Indian War. France lost all land east of the Mississippi except New Orleans and Canada and west of the Mississippi west to Spain

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Treaty of Paris 1763

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Passed by Great Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party. These acts closed down Boston Harbor until the colonists could pay back their debt

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Intolerable Acts

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Detailed the reasons why the colonies should separate from Great Britain; written by Thomas Paine & published in January 1776

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Common Sense

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Group of women in the colonies who boycotted British goods and made their own fabrics and tea

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Daughters of Liberty

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Network of local groups that informed colonists of British measures and the opposition to them in the years before the Revolutionary War

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Committees of Correspondence

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Declaration by the British King ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains

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Proclamation of 1763