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Ahsge Standard 3
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/18/2012

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Boston Tea Party
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what act of colonial protestation resulted in the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts being passed by the British parliament?
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Olive Branch Petition
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what document was sent to King Geroge 111 as a final attempt at peace by the colonists in 1775?
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Yorktown
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what was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War (Cornwallis surrendered to Washington
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Treaty of Paris
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what was the treaty called which gave the U.S. its independence from Great Britain?
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War of 1812
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The U.S. fought the British again in what war?
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Embargo Act
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What law was passed by Jefferson tht disallowed trade with other nations (including Britain) and led to the War of 1812?
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impressment
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what term was used to describe the British navy forcing Americans into service?
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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what ordinance was passed in 1785 what divided territory in hte old northwest into townships
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Northwest Ordinance
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