Unit 1 Ch. 1

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Democracy

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A system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.

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Monarchy

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A form of government with a monarch at the head.

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The Stamp Act

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A 1765 act by the British Parliament that imposed a tax on the colonies, requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

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The Quartering Act

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A series of British laws requiring American colonists to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.

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The Townshend Act

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A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament in 1767, imposing duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies.

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The Declaratory Act

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An act of the British Parliament in 1766, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.

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The Boston Massacre

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A confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.

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The Boston Tea Party

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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773, where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

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Delegates

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Individuals chosen or elected to represent a group of people, often in a political context.

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Declaration of Independence

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The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.