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a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. ... In 1776, Arthur was elected to succeed his father in the Continental Congress and subsequently was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

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an American politician, and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina

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signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina

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signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina

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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and drafted declaration of Independence

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Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable

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A seventeenth-century English philosopher who came up with natural rights

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Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776

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At a General Meeting in Charlestown on July 6, 1774 they elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they created the General Committee of 99 ,which soon became the "de facto" government of South Carolina

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A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the Continental Congress and served as that body's presiding officer for a few days in 1774

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a raid on three British ships in  Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea

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A meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies in 1774

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a private company granted a trade monopoly with the  East Indies by Queen Elizabeth I

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harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774

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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses

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The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

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the action of revoking or annulling a law

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a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods.

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The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America

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A tax collected by intermediary

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a tax, such as income tax, that is levied on the income or profits of the person who pays it,

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A tax imposed on imported goods and services

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an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents

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a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies

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The war was a conflict between British forces in North Americ a and Cherokee Indian tribes during the French and Indian war

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The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763

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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France