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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olaudah Equiano| former slave who in 1789 wrote a memoir of hs experiences as a slave, includng his childhood in Africa, the Atlantic crossing and life as a slave, which deeply impacted British views on the cruelty of slavery; Equiano was purchased by a British Naval officer and ended up under a Philadelphia merchant who allowed him to purchase his freedom; Equiano became a sucessful merchant and adventurer}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olaudah Equiano| former slave who in 1789 wrote a memoir of hs experiences as a slave, includng his childhood in Africa, the Atlantic crossing and life as a slave, which deeply impacted British views on the cruelty of slavery; Equiano was purchased by a British Naval officer and ended up under a Philadelphia merchant who allowed him to purchase his freedom; Equiano became a sucessful merchant and adventurer}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:seasoning camps|centralized destinations in the Caribbean for new African slave arrivals to "season", or prepare, them for new conditions; about 1/3rd of slaves who arrived to these camps died their first year there, mostly of dysentery due to the horrible conditions}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:seasoning camps|centralized destinations in the Caribbean for new African slave arrivals to "season", or prepare, them for new conditions; about 1/3rd of slaves who arrived to these camps died their first year there, mostly of dysentery due to the horrible conditions}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:triangle trade|the geographic pattern of slave-trade exchange between Europe (selling manufactured goods, especiall arms, which African states used to acquire more slaves), African coastal states (selling slaves) and the Americas (sellng slave-produced products, especially sugar, molasses or rum}}</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:triangle trade|the geographic pattern of slave-trade exchange between Europe (selling manufactured goods, especiall arms, which African states used to acquire more slaves), African coastal states (selling slaves) and the Americas (selling slave-produced products, especially sugar, molasses, rice, rum, and tobacco}}</ul>
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:committees of correspondence|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:committees of correspondence|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Law|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Law|the British legal tradition of "precedent", or legal decisions based upon what has been "commonly" practiced in the law; for Americans, the common law represented a deeply ingrained right which included civilian courts and juries of citizen peers}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li>
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sons of Liberty|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sons of Liberty|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act Congress|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act Congress|nine colonial assemblies sent delegates to protest the encroachment of "rights and liberties", especially trial by jury}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}<li>virtual representation</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}<li>virtual representation</ul>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Vice Admiralty Courts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Vice Admiralty Courts|}}</ul></li>
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Dunmore|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Dunmore|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Benjamin Franklin|as scientist and publisher, the most famous American in his day; up until final moments before war, was always conciliatory to the British, accepting of British rule, and sought compromise; however, stood firm for colonial rights, including representation in Parliament; was early thinker about colonial union, esp. given experience as Postmaster of the colonies (Albany Plan)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Grenville|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Grenville|Prime Minister (head of Parliamanet), asserted British sovereignty over colonies and led various enforcement and tax laws through Parliament, including the Sugar Act; Grenville's tax policies shifted British tax policy away from mercantilism towards revenue-raising}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul></li>
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|+ Chronology of Colonial Acts
|+ Chronology of Colonial Acts
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! Act !! Year
! Year
! Act  
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| Sugar Act|| 1763
| 1763
| Sugar Act
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| Quebec Act|| 1764
| 1764
| Quebec Act
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| 1765
| Quartering Act|| 1765
| Quartering Act
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| Declaratory Act || 1766
|-
| Townsend Act|| 1767
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| 1766
| Tea Act|| 1773
| Declaratory Act  
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|-
| Coervice Acts|| Example
| 1767
| Townsend Act
|-
|-
| Example || Example
| 1773
| Tea Act
|-
|-
| Example || Example
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| Coervice Acts
|}
|}
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Currency Acts|1764: banned colonial use of paper money; colonials had been using paper money (basically an I.O.U.) to pay debts, which lowered their cost as the paper money was worth less than British currency}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|1765; aimed to raise revenue (not mercantilist in nature), taxed any printed item, including contracts, titles, almanacs, playing carts, etc.; highest fees were on legal documents, so impacted the wealthy most; was efficient to collect; but outraged the colonists}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|1765; aimed to raise revenue (not mercantilist in nature), taxed any printed item, including contracts, titles, almanacs, playing carts, etc.; highest fees were on legal documents, so impacted the wealthy most; was efficient to collect; was enforced by the Vice Admiralty Court; overall goal of the Act was to assert parliamentary supremacy; outraged the colonists, esp. enforcement by the naval courts}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|replaced the Molasses Act of 1733 and lowered duties on sugar with the goal of raising more revenue through a more reasonable tax rate; however, it also tightened customs enforcement and moved judicial oversight/ prosecution to the Vice-Admiralty courts}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Tea Act|1773}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Tea Act|1773}}</ul></li>