American Revolution Flashcards

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Boycott

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Refusal to buy something as a form of protest

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Taxation

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Process of collecting money from citizens in order to fund government expenses

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Revolution

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Changing from one governmental structure to another

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Patriots

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American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain

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Loyalists

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American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain

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Civil disobedience

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Refusal to obey laws as a form of protest

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Grievance

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A complaint

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Propaganda

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To influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda

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Unalienable rights

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Rights that you are born with that cannot be taken away (Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness)

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Intolerable Acts

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Closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid back money for dumping the tea.