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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:ABC Boards|American Board of Customss, "commissioners" created by the Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 and appointed by the powerful London Board of Trade, who enforced customs and other tax collections; notoriously corrupt, customs officials were targets of American ire and at times violence; the British government struggled to control colonial trade, especially stopping smugglng, which is simply trade of goods wihout paying duties; whenever trade rules were enforced, it outraged colonists; from the British point of view, the taxes were for the benefit of the colonists, as they funded colonial operations}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:ABC Boards|American Board of Customss, "commissioners" created by the Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 and appointed by the powerful London Board of Trade, who enforced customs and other tax collections; notoriously corrupt, customs officials were targets of American ire and at times violence; the British government struggled to control colonial trade, especially stopping smugglng, which is simply trade of goods wihout paying duties; whenever trade rules were enforced, it outraged colonists; from the British point of view, the taxes were for the benefit of the colonists, as they funded colonial operations}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Admiralty Court|Naval judicial courts that acted independently of colonial authority; Admiralty or Vice Admiralty courts were used to enforce taxes, and were hated by the colonists who felt that they were | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Admiralty Court/ Vice-Admiralty Court|Naval judicial courts that acted independently of colonial authority; Admiralty or Vice Admiralty courts were used to enforce taxes, and were hated by the colonists who felt that they were unjust and did not allow for "judgment of peers", which is the basis of the jury system; the advantage of these courts for the British was that they operated under military and not civil law, and were thus outside of normal legal processes of civilian judges and juries}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Massacre|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Massacre|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Tea Party|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Tea Party|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:committees of correspondence|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Law|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Declaration of Independence|}}<li>direct representation</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Congress|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Association|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Declaration of Independence|}}<li>direct representation</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Enlightenment philosophers|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Enlightenment philosophers|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:First Continental Congress|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:First Continental Congress|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Dunmore's War|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:''Gaspee'' affair|1772, colonials burned the British ''HMS Gaspee'', which was enforcing Navigation Acts off of Rhode Island; the ''Gaspee'' had been aggressively boarding and inspecting colonial vessels and seizing cargo, and while chasing a colonial boat got stuck aground; a group of colonials took advantage of the boat's helplessness and attacked}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:''Gaspee'' affair|1772, colonials burned the British ''HMS Gaspee'', which was enforcing Navigation Acts off of Rhode Island; the ''Gaspee'' had been aggressively boarding and inspecting colonial vessels and seizing cargo, and while chasing a colonial boat got stuck aground; a group of colonials took advantage of the boat's helplessness and attacked}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Locke|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Locke|}}</ul></li> | ||
< | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer|by John Dickinson}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lexington/Concord|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lexington/Concord|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Loyalist|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Loyalist|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Minutemen|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Montesquieu|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Montesquieu|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:natural rights|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:natural rights|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Nonimportation movement|}}</ul> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Popular Sovereignty|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Revolutionary flags|flags symbolically represent a place or people; the |}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Revolutionary flags|flags symbolically represent a place or people; the |}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Battle of Saratoga|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Battle of Saratoga|}}</ul></li> | ||
<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|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}<li>virtual representation</ul> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Vice Admiralty Courts|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Yorktown|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Congresses|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Writs of Assistance|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | === Revoluationary Era people === | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Adams|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Samuel Adams|}}</ul></li> | ||
< | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Dickinson|}}</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:George Grenville|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Jefferson|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord North|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Charles Townshend|succeeded Grenville}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:George Washington|}}</ul></li> | |||
=== British Laws & Regulations === | === British Laws & Regulations === | ||
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<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; but outraged the colonists}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Tea Act|1773}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Townsend Acts|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Townsend Acts|}}</ul> | ||
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