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american revoloution
Term | Definition |
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declaration of independence | Congress voted to declare independence. Two days later, it ratified the text of the Declaration. |
democracy | government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through represenataion |
stamp act | an act of the Britain parliment in 1765 the exact revenure fo=rom the American coloniers by impposibg a stamp duty on them |
intolerable acts | were a series of 4 acts by the British Parliament to punish the clolnu of massachusetts by for the Boston tea party |
Boston tea party | the Boston tea party was a political protest that occurred on December 16 1773 at griffins wharf in Boston massechusttes |
the colonies | a group of people of one nationally or ethnic group living in a foreign city or county |
popular sovergenity | a controversial political doctrine according tow which the people of federal teritortis should decide for themselves wether their |