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Separate religion from poloticts
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people were selfish
had natural rights
king's power should be limited by the people and the goverement
social condtract
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The goverement should be broken into diffrent sections and each should have power to control others.(seperatation of powers)(3 branches)
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He wanted to make sure that criminals had some rights torture was wrong. Educatation would reduce crime rate.
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This bill required colonists to house soldures.
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british troops fire into a croud of people
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They wounded the lieutenant who was commanding the ship, and set the ship on fire.
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In the early years, committees were formed to address a specific problem, then disbanded when resolution was achieved.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price.
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n 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the English East India Company a chance to avert bankruptcy by granting a monopoly on the importation of tea into the colonies. The new regulations allowed the company to sell tea to the colonists at a low price, lower than the price of smuggled tea, even including the required duty. The British reasoned that the Americans would willingly pay the tax if they were able to pay a low price for the tea.
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British Officials could not be tried in the colonies. They would be extradited back to Britain.
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British Governor had complete control of the town meetings.
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This bill extended the Canadian borders to cut off The western colonies of Conn. Mass. and Va.
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This bill closed the port of Boston to all colonists until, the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid for.
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Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock of the british coming to arrest them.
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known as the shot heard around the world
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Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. It went through several editions in Philadelphia, and was republished in all parts of United America. Because of it, Paine became internationally famous.
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