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A person who offers new views and ideas on questions in ethics and logic
Define: Philosopher
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What is the Boston tea party
This event happened as a result of unfair taxation on tea.
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What is the Boston tea party
Which major event on the road to revolution was organized by the Sons of Liberty
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British lawmaking body of government
Define: Parliament
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What is the proclamation of 1763
This effect of the French and Indian War prohibited colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
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What is the idea that kings and queens ruled because God chose them to.
Describe the term "Divine Right"
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What is paper
The stamp act mostly taxed this item.
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What is tar & feathering, effigies, looting/burning houses, protests
These intimidation tactics were used by the sons of liberty. Name 2.
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What is a law
Define: Act
ex: Stamp Act |
What is propaganda
After the Boston massacre Paul Revere drew "The Bloody Massacre" to be used as this for the patriot cause.
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What is property/pursuit of happiness
John Locke said the three natural human rights are life, liberty and __________
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What is debt from the war
After the French & Indian War the British decided to tax the colonists because of this problem.
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What is boycotting British goods, sewing clothing from handmade cloth, brewing American tea
These tactics were used by the daughters of liberty. Name 2.
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What is an overthrow of a government with intent to replace it with another one
Define: Revolution
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What is restore our rights or we will continue to boycott British goods/ refuse to trade
The First Continental Congress wrote a letter to King George III saying this.
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What is Voltaire
This philosopher is credited for his ideas on the separation of church and state.
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What is coffee, and wine
The sugar act enforced a tax on sugar and these other items.
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What is posters, fliers, speeches, ect. used to try to influence citizens to believe a popular idea
Sons of liberty also organized propaganda. Define: Propaganda
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What is a form of organized protest where people abstain from using or purchasing a product/business to prove a political point
Define: Boycott
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What is to capture the leaders of the sons of liberty and confiscate the weapons from the colonists
Why did British soldiers march to Lexington and Concord starting the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
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What is an agreement between the people and their government. The people give the government authority to rule them in exchange for protection and security
Describe Rousseau's social contract
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What is the British parliament taxing American colonists even though they did not have a representative in Parliament.
Describe: taxation without representation
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What is educated, farmers, shopkeepers, ect.. "ordinary" people
The sons and daughters of liberty were patriots. What types of people were typically patriots?
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It is cancelled or abolished.
What does it mean if an act is repealed?
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What is closed Boston harbor, prohibited Massachusetts elections and town meetings, required colonists to house British troops, British appointed governors could only go to trial in England.
Describe 3 laws under the Intolerable Acts
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