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| british lawmaking body of government |
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| american lawmaking body of government |
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| a small settlement made up of people from a different area;ruled by another country |
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| declaration of independence |
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| document that declared us free from english rule |
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| product that saved jamestown;popular in europe |
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| committees of correspondence |
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| colonists wrote letters to other colonies informing them of happenings |
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| colony owned by a single owner |
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| the large movement of puritans to the new world |
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| document stating all english citizens would not be taxed without their consent |
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| soldiers ready to fight in a minute's notice |
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| colonists forced to place a stamp on all legal documents |
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| act that forbade colonists to move west of the appalachian mountains |
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| four acts that britain placed on the colonists after the boston tea party |
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| taxe placed on tea; gave sole right to sell tea to the british east india tea |
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| colonists threw tea overboard as a sign of protest |
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| 5 colonists were killed in a riot in boston |
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| first continental congress |
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| banned trade with england |
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| second continental congress |
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| formed continental army & started printing money |
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| set up rules & regulations of plymouth colony |
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| someone who cannot afford a passage to the new world who then pays back a person by working for them |
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| permission to establish a colony |
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| people who wanted to purify the church of england |
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| colonists who protested against british laws |
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| person who supported american colonists during the revolutionary war |
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| person who supported britain during the revolutionary war; 30% of the population were loyalists at the start of the war |
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| a series of laws intended to limit trading in the colonies with only england |
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