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mercantilism
- It was a economic thoery and practise that said that a nation or country should export more than imports
- It led to the navigation acts
- It was important because it reestablished the colonies of great britian
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Navigation act
- The rise of the dutch carrying trade
- It was a series of laws that restriced foreign shipd for trade
- The colonies could only ship to england
- They where important because they blocked foreign trade
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French and Indian war
- It was because the on going tension in north america
- It comprised the north american theatre of worldwide seven years war
- It permanelty shifted the worldiwde balance of power
- The U.S
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writs of assistance
- The British didn't want the colonist smuggling British goods
- They where search warrants
- Colonists didn't want people searching their houses
- Because people where smuggling goods and they had to haveit stop
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proclomation of 1763
- Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War / Seven Years' War,
- Prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and reserved those lands for Native Americans.
- The colonists ignored the rule
- It was important because it created more tension
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sugar act
- Britian was in debt and needed money
- The sugar act increased the number of things being taxed so more money could pay for the debt
- The boston massacre had to do with the sugar act
- It was imprtant because they needed more money to pay off there debt
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stamp act
- They had a debt to pay off
- It made every colinsts have to pay a tax for every peice of paper they use
- It was caused by a uproar in the clonies
- It payed for all of the debt they where in
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quartering act
- Concerns of ttroop deployment and them not having a place to live
- It was a a parliamnet passed so that the soldiers could have any accomadations and housing
- The troops had homes and anything that they needed
- American colonists resented to the law because they didnt want british soldiers living in their homes
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repeal of the stamp act/ declaratory act
- The stamp act
- It was the reaction by the british parliament of the stamp act failure
- It made colonist very happy
- It was important because it allowed britain to pass all of the other acts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo0kldbQ9-w
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Townshend acts
- The repeal of the stamp act cause the townshend act
- The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
- It made colonists react violently
- They helped reignite anger in the colonies
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boston massacre
- A protest of Massachusetts colonists
- It was the killing of 5 colonists by British regulars it was caused by tension between the two
- It killed 5 people but it also helped to two colonies unite
- The Boston Massacre was important because it helped reignite calls for ending the relationship between the American colonists and the British.
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tea act
- Men dressed as Mohawks went and destroyed over 92,000 gallons of tea
- Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
- The Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea
- The tea act was important because the Tea Act was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists
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Boston tea party
- Protest by a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawks
- The midnight raid
- Because of this, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which were so harsh that they were renamed the Intolerable Acts.
- The Boston Tea Party is also important because of both the British and American responses to the actions that followed the tea party.
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intolerable act
- To punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. 2.The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament i 3.The port of Boston was closed until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea. 4.They were an important factor contributing to the American Revolution.
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battle of Lexington and concord
- They where caused by growing tension
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory 4.It kicked off the revolutionary war
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declaration of independance
- Armed conflict began a issue
- It announced that the thirteen colonies weren't under British rule anymore 3.It produced the United States of America
- Because it made now what we call the U.S.A
