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USA Independence
Causes
- Colonies kept refusing to do what the King wanted
- Paying taxs without having any representation in Parliament
- The colonists did not like British Government Actions
- Many colonists wanted free trade
Vocabulary:
- Delegates: A person sent to represent others, in particular an sent to a conference.
- Taxes: A strain or heavy demand.
- Parliament: the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
- Massacre: An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.
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Characteristics:
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- World's first written constitution
Continental Congress
1774 First Congress: Delegates fo the 13 colonies in Philadelphia to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts
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