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What is the Navigation Act?
Colonists were required to trade only with England
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What is the Declaratory Act?
Parliament still claimed the right to tax the colonies.
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Who is Sam Adams?
Important leader in the Sons of Liberty.
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What is the Writs of Assistance?
It allowed British Military to search any house, anytime for any reason with no warrant
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What is the Townshend Acts?
Placed a tax on various imported items-paper, glass, lead, paint and tea.
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Who is Paul Revere?
Silversmith who warned colonists that the British were coming.
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What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Forbade colonists from settling on lands west beyond the Appalachian Mountains
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What is the Tea Act?
Tax on tea
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Who is King George III
He was the King of Great Britain during the American Revolution.
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What is the Quartering Act?
This act required the colonies to pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers
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What is The Intolerable Acts?
Series of laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Who is Crispus Attucks?
First American to be killed in the revolution.
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What is the Currency Act?
This act banned the issuing of printing paper bills.
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What is the Quebec Act?
This act extended the southern boundary of Canada in to the Ohio River Valley.
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Who is Ben Franklin?
First proposed the Albany Plan of Union to combine the 13 colonies.
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