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a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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an American politician, and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

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

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managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government.

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an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania

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elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and they created the Committee of 99.

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a planter and public official from South Carolina. 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 political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.

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was an English and later British joint-stock company.

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harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.

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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain

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secret code words, medals, and symbols. Originally formed in response to the Stamp Act.

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revoke or annul

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to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.)

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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 an intermediary (such as a retail store) from the person who bears the ultimate economic burden

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a tax, such as income tax, that is levied on the income or profits of the person who pays it, rather than on goods or services.

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

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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America .

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colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

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the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion.

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a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.

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comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63.