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| The accession of _____ in 1760 brought great political change to both England and the colonies. He was determined to restore the power of the monarchy by supporting men in Parliament. |
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| William Pitt and Edmund Burke |
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| Name to English parliamentarians who were allies with the colonists. |
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| Irish parliamentarian known as the Father of Modern Conservatism. |
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| Act requiring colonists to purchase and to affix stamps on legal and commercial documents including pamphlets and newspapers. |
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| At what did the delegates conclude that, according to their charters, they were only under the authority of the king? |
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| Declaration of Rights and Grienvances |
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| In 1765, what did the Stamp Act Congress issue, protesting the stamp tax and other British regulations which the colonists felt were illegal? |
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| A series of laws passed by Parliament, punishing the colonists of Boston for resistance to their regulations- |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| What was the assembly of delegates from every colony except Georgia to discuss what action would be taken in the impending crisis called? |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| All thirteen colonies were represented in Philadelphia as a government body to assume political power by supporting an army, appointing George Washington as commander in chief, and issuing money. It was, in other words, America's first central government. |
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| The _____ cut off all trade between the colonies and England and officially removed the colonies from the "King's Protection". |
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