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<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:Minutemen|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|in terms of the American Revolution, the Navigation Acts, whihch were replaced in law and governing philosophy by the post-French-Indian War laws of Parliament, marked a change from mercantilist to revenue- and regulatory-based taxation and economic governance; the Americans distinguished between "internal" and "external" taxes, accepting the "external" taxes, based on imports and exports, as legitimate and objecting to British imposition of "internal" taxes that taxed domestic activities, such as did the Stamp Act; the Americans called these internal taxes "direct" taxes, and the US Constitution restricted;}}</ul> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Nonimportation movement|in response to the new taxes, colonists organized boycotts of British goods and other foreign imports; the boycotts were promoted by the Daughters of Liberty, the Committees of Correspondence, and helped develop the idea of domestic economic self-sufficiency; groups like the Sons of Liberty actively protested and even attacked customs houses and buyers and sellers of imported goods and their customers; }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|in July, 1775, following outbreak of conflict at Bunker Hill, John Dickinson, author of "Letters from a Farmer", opposed to further conflict war with Britain, persuaded the Continental Congress to send a letter to George III that affirmed American loyalty and desire to avoid war and that they just wanted more equitable laws; the petition was deeply opposed but passed under Dickinson's persuasion; the King refused to receive it, having already issued the Proclamation of Rebellion (naming certain colonies as in state of rebellion); Congress soon after the Olive Branch issued the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" written by Jefferson and Dickinson (see entry)}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|in July, 1775, following outbreak of conflict at Bunker Hill, John Dickinson, author of "Letters from a Farmer", opposed to further conflict war with Britain, persuaded the Continental Congress to send a letter to George III that affirmed American loyalty and desire to avoid war and that they just wanted more equitable laws; the petition was deeply opposed but passed under Dickinson's persuasion; the King refused to receive it, having already issued the Proclamation of Rebellion (naming certain colonies as in state of rebellion); Congress soon after the Olive Branch issued the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" written by Jefferson and Dickinson (see entry)}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | ||