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  • repealing the Stamp Act. 1767 – March: Boston makes first attempt at a nonimportation agreement. June: Townshend Acts passed. November: Publication of Letters...
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  • exclusively by William. In 1767, the merchants of Boston signed a nonimportation agreement in response to the Townshend Acts. The aim was to pressure Great...
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    general nonimportation agreement adopted by the First Continental Association a month later, on October 20. Previously, nonimportation agreements had been...
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    George Washington and others in 1770 and again in 1774 to draft nonimportation agreements which pledged their supporters to cease importing British goods...
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    with one Smooth Surface." When the colonial assemblies passed nonimportation agreements in 1769, which followed the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and...
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    breaking a British nonimportation agreement. In response, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein retaliated...
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    business together importing rum, sugar and slaves. They joined the nonimportation agreement against the Stamp Act of 1765—a symbolic move because it did not...
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  • Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted...
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  • breaking a British nonimportation agreement. In retaliation, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein responded...
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    (1809) Macon's Bill Number 2 Origins of the War of 1812 Nonconsumption agreements Perkins Bradford. "Jefferson and Madison: The Diplomacy of Fear and Hope...
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  • were unable to pay their debts. To gather more money they made up the nonimportation so that they could sell their stock at the higher prices. You will have...
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  • Frolic 1814 Apr 14 diplomacy United States repeals Embargo Act and Nonimportation Act 1814 Apr 25 Atlantic Coast British extend blockade to New England...
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    "homespun," was a peaceful way of expressing support for the Patriot cause. Nonimportation and nonconsumption became major weapons in the arsenal of American opposition...
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  • attempted to dock was made by the James, but was discouraged by the nonimportation forces (patriots) on shore until the British navy helped them dock,...
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    attempted to dock was made by the James, but was discouraged by the nonimportation forces (patriots) on shore until the British navy helped them dock,...
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    was the agreement to establish the Continental Association of nonimportation, nonconsumption and nonexportation. It was modeled on the agreement adopted...
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    guiding many of New England's colonists in the 1760s and 1770s. In their nonimportation and nonconsumption rhetoric and in their attacks on luxury and idleness...
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