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How did the colonists attempt to settle issues with the Natives and westward expansion?: The Albany Congress in 1754
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Sons of Liberty: A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.
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What did the Currency Act of 1764 do in the colonies?: It made it illegal for them to print their own paper money.
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What did the Stamp Act bring on, politically?: In October 1765, the Stamp Act Congress met with the nine colonies, where they affirmed that only the colonies could tax themselves.
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What document originally began the ideal of "no taxation without representation"?: Samuel Adam's Circular letter first expressed this ideal in opposition to the Declaratory Act and the townshend Duties.
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What fancy title did Charles Townshend have?: Chancellor of the Exchequer
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What was the 'worst' bill Grenville passed?: The Stamp Act, which placed a huge tax on all paper/printed products.
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What was the main purpose of the First Continental Congress?: to congregate all the colonists and draw up athe Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
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What was the main weapon the colonists used in the Boston Massacre?: Snowballs with rocks in them.
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What was the most problematic colony for the British?: Massachusetts. it got crazy up in there.
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what was the purpose of the tea Act?: to save the East India Tea Company from bankruptcy.
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What were some of teh "Intolerable Acts"?: -Quartering Act: soldiers are forced into colonsts homes
-Port Act: Only military and certan british ships were allowed into Boston ports.
-Quebec Act: religious freedom of French Catholics
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What were the results of the Treaty of Paris?: -French influence in theAmericas ended
-The Spanish gained the Louisiana territory
-Amercans began to resent the British
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What were the Townshend Acts?: Similar to Grenville's taxes, Charles Townshend enacted taxes on sugar, glass, paper and tea. The money from these taxes were used to pay for British officials in the colonies so the colonists can't hold anything over their heads.
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Which Native American tribe DID NOT side with the French?: The Iroquois
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Who "started" the Seven Years War by storming a French fort in Pittsburgh?: George Washington
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Who lead the troops against the French in the colonies?: William Pitt
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Who repealed the Townshend Duties?: Lord North, the Prime minister of britain in 1770. He did leave the tax on tea, to make a point.
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Who was George Grenville?: British Prime Minister Architect of the Sugar Act; his method of taxation and crackdown on colonial smuggling were widely disliked by Americans. He passed the Stamp Act arguing that colonists received virtual representation in Parliament
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Why did it take so long for the British to defeat the French?: They didn't wanna pay for it
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Why did the colonists resist the British actions so much?: Because with salutary Neglact they had developed independance and wanted to control themselves.
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Why was the Stamp Act so repulsive to the colonists?: It was so terrible because this was the first tax directly implemented by Parliament. The colonies had self-imposed taxes until this point.
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With the repeal of the Stamp Act by Lord Rockingham, what act replaced it?: The Declaratory Act, which stated absolute authority over the colonies.
