SS8H3a
-required that all printed documents be on
paper that has a tax stamp
-angered colonists
-soon repealed
Stamp Act
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SS8H3a
-AKA “Coercive Acts”
-passed by G.B. in response to BTP
-What it did: closed Boston port, no protest
groups, colonists must quarter soldiers
Intolerable Acts
43
SS8H3a
-Document written by Thomas Jefferson,
signed by colonial leaders, written to King
-adopted July 4, 1776
-listed problems & declared colonies to be
an independent nation “U.S.A.”
Declaration of Independence
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