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American Revolution
American History - Revolution
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8th Grade
12/17/2013

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why did Britain raise taxes on the 13 American colonies?
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French and Indian War Debt
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Who were most Indians allied with during the French & Indian War?
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French
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What placed a tax on printed goods?
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Stamp Tax
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What placed a tax on imported goods?
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Townshend Acts
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Besides taxes, what upset the Colonists the most?
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“No taxation without Representation”
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Who tossed Tea off the boat in Boston?
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Sons of Liberty
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What was the colonists reaction to the Sugar Act?
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Boycott
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Patrick Henry quote.
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“Give me Liberty, or give me death”
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American colonists shot in the street.
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Boston Massacre
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British parliament makes the laws in the colonies in all cases whatsoever.
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Declaratory Act
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This law allowed quartering, and shut down Boston Harbor.
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Intolerable Acts
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Annulled the Kings Laws, Colonies make the laws.
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Mecklenburg Resolves
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This started Revolution around the world
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Shot ‘heard round the world
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Location of the first Battle of the American Revolution.
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Lexington
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City where the Colonists hid their weapons.
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Concord
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A loss for the US, but a moral vIctory.
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Bunker Hill
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He warned the minutemen of the British advance.
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Paul Revere
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Leader of the British army.
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Lord Cornwallis
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He wrote “common sense.”
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Thomas Paine
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He wrote “the declaration of independence”
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Thomas Jefferson
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The British planned to divide the colony in half, but lost this battle.
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Saratoga
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This battle ended the American Revolution.
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Yorktown
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This is where the Colonists barely survived the winter.
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Valley Forge
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Missing Planks, Greased Bridge. NC beats the loyalists.
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Moore’s Creek
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After the win at Saratoga, this helped the Americans win the war.
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Foreign Aid
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“all men are created equal”
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Declaration of Independence
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Representatives of each colony meet to discuss the revolution.
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2nd Continental Congress
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Attacked Ticonderoga.
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Green Mountain Boys and Benedict Arnold
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Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Unalienable Rights
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1776
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Declaration of Independence
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1783
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Treaty of Paris end the Revolutionary War
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1607
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Jamestown in founded
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