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| Colonials loyal to the king during the American Revolution |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| a convention and a consultative body that met for seven weeks in 1774 in Philadelphia; it was the American's response to the Intolerable Acts; considered ways of redressing colonial grievances; all colonies except Georgia sent 55 distinguished men in all; John Adams persuaded his colleagues toward revolution; they wrote a Declaration of Rights and appeals to British American colonies, the king, and British people; created the Association which called for a complete boycott of English goods; the Association was the closest thing to a written constitution until later. |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Samuel Adams started the first committee in Boston in 1772 to spread propaganda and secret info by way of letters. They were used to sustain opposition to British policy. The committees were extremely effective and few years later almost every colony had one. This is another example of the colonies breaking away from Europe to become Americans. |
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| British courts originally established to try cases involving smuggling or violations of the Navigation Acts which the British government sometimes used to try American criminals in the colonies. Trials in Admiralty Courts were heard by judges without a jury. |
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| An organization established in 1765, these members (usually in the middle or upper class) resisted the Stamp Act of 1765. Even though the Stamp Act was repealed in 1766, they combined with the Daughters of Liberty remained active in resistance movements |
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| Theory that claimed that every member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even those Americans in Boston or Charleston who had never voted for a member of the London Parliament. |
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| According to this doctrine, the colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country; they should add to its wealth, prosperity, and self-sufficiency. The settlers were regarded more or less as tenants. They were expected to produce tobacco and other products needed in England and not to bother their heads with dangerous experiments in agriculture of self-government. |
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| A stern, Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. |
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| He was control of the British ministry and was nicknamed "Champagne Charley" for his brilliant speeches in Parliament while drunk. He persuaded Parliament in 1767 to pass the Townshend Acts. These new regulations was a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, and tea. It was a tax that colonists were greatly against and was a near start for rebellions to take place. |
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| In June, 1772, the British customs ship Gaspee ran a ground off the colonial coast. When the British went ashore for help, colonials boarded the ship and burned it. They were sent to Britain for trial. Colonial outrage led to the widespread formation of Committees of Correspondence. |
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| Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania |
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| A declaration colonial rights and grievances, written by John Dickinson in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts. Although an outspoken critic of British policies towards the colonies, Dickinson opposed the Revolution, and, as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence. |
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| The British Prime Minister from 1763-1765. To obtain funds for Britain after the costly 7-Years War, in 1763 he ordered the Navy to enforce the unpopular Navigation Laws, and 1764 he got Parliament to pass the Sugar Act, which increased duties on sugar imported from the West Indies. He also, in 1765, brought about eh Quartering Act, which forced colonist to provide food and shelter to British soldiers, who many colonist believed were only present to keep the colonists in line. |
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| Internal/External taxation |
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| According to this doctrine, the colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country; they should add to its wealth, prosperity and self-sufficiency. The settlers were regarded more or less as teants. They were expected to produced tobacco and other products need in England and not to bother with self government. |
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| King George III's stout prime minister (governor during Boston Tea Party) in the 1770s. His rule fell in March of 1782, which therefore ended the rule of George III for a short while. |
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