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- These committees were created to allow the colonies to correspond with one another:
- Affirmed allegiance to the king, but declared to have the same rights as Britons
- Who was on the British throne during the American Revolution?
- This religious group was first to oppose slavery in the colonies:
- When was the first taxing the British imposed on the colonies?
- The process of buying tools, clothes, and other luxury items as opposed to making them:
- The colonists' goal to show King George III they wanted to reccncile:
- Who said "The colonists are entitled to ample rights, liberties, and privileges as the subjects of the mother country are, and in some respects, more"
- This city had the largest population of all the colonial cities in the late 18th Century:
- A series of religious revivals starting in mid-1700s?
- In these colonies the governor was appointed by property-owning men, they had executive, legislative, and judicial branches:
- What organization in the colonies directed resistance to acts passed by Parliament?
- Resolution passed by Virginia in 1765, calling for colonies to receive the liberties, privileges, and immunities of Britons
- These four acts were passed by Parliament to punish Boston, but only increased rebellion:
- -riots -fix election in Baltimore -burning of convents-destroyed church property-harassed nuns
- In these two towns the first shots of the Revolution were fired:
- These people made sure colonies followed English Law
- These were colonies led by governors appointed by the King and under more control:
- These colonial bodies served as the governor's cabinet, members were chosen by the governor:
- March 5, 1770, British soldiers killed five colonists: