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uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, protesting the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system

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chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory

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sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly

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general search warrant issued by superior provincial courts to assist the British government in enforcing trade and navigation laws

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document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain

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British parliamentary provision requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages

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the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England

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pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies

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tax on goods a country imports or exports

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constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States

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first U.S. constitution (1781–89), which served as a bridge between the initial government by the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period and the federal government provided under the U.S. Constitution of 1787

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treaty signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution

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an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles

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a series of 4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party

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a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

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meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War

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political protest in which American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor

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proclamation issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands