Flashcards: Causes of the American Revolution
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kylefritch on December 7, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 writs of assistance | legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled |
| Stamp Act | A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies |
| Tea Act | Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party |
| Townshend Act | The act that put taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea |
| Navigation Act | Series of English laws in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies. |
| Committees of Correspondence | a central committee where colonists would exchange ideas and information with other colonies |
| Minutemen | Colonial militia |
| "Common Sense" | a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation |
| Declaratory Act | allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies, limited colonists' say |
| Sugar Act | law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies |