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Unit 2 Vocab Menu

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Boston Tea Party

Sons of Liberty dumped lots of tea into the bay in protest

2nd Continental Congress

meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies that united in the American Revo.

Stamp act (1765)

REquired many printed materials in the colonies to be prod on stamped paper

Articles of Confederation

agreement among 13 colonies that acted as the first constitution

Tariff

a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

French and Indian War

pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France

Declaration of independence

pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia

northwest ordinance (1787)

an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States

shay's rebellion

armed uprising in Western MA opposing debt among the citizens