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Chapter 3 Section 1&2
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09/13/2012

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Philadelphia
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the First Continental Congress met in this city on September 5, 1774
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Currency Act
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banned the use of paper money in the colonies
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minutemen
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were a special unit of men created by the town of Concord that were trained to fight at a moment's notice
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Loyalists
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name given to Americans who were loyal to Britain, also known as Tories
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Common Sense
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this pamphlet written by Thomas Paine attacked the monarchy
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Declaratory Act
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asserted that the Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies
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nonimportation agreement
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was a pledge entered into by merchants to not buy any British goods until Parliament repealed the Stamp Act
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Quebec Act
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extended Quebec's boundaries to include the much of what is today Ohio, Illinois, MIchigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin
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Treaty of Paris
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under this treaty the French lost all title to mainland North America
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Daughter's Of Liberty
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woman's group that began sinning their own rough cloth called "homespun"
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committees of correspondence
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were created by the colonies to communicate with one another about British activities
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Sugar Act
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changed the tax rates on imports of raw sugar and molasses and placed new taxes on silk, wine, coffee, and indigo
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Declaration of Independence
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document in which colonies declared themselves independent
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Declaration of Independence
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states that everyone is created equal
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Coercive Acts
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were a set of laws that the British hoped would dissuade other colonies from challenging British authority like Massachusetts had with the Boston Tea Party
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
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declared that colonists could not settle west of a line drawn north to south along the Appalachian Mountains
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Gaspee Affair
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incident in which the colonists burned a British ship that had run aground
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Albany Conference
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its purpose was to negotiate an alliance with the Iroquois
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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
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this document expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Coercive Acts and stated that the colonies would enter into a nonimportation association
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Albany Pan Of Union
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proposed that the colonies join together
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Stamp Taxed
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was the first direct tax Britain placed on the colonists
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writs of assistance
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these were general search warrants used by customs officers to help them arrest smugglers
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British Victory
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at Quebec was a turning point of the French and Indian War
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Boston Massacre
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resulted because a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house
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William Dawes
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along with Paul Revere, spread the alarm after British troops were on a road that took them past the town of Lexington
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customs duties
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these taxes were placed on goods that were imported to and exported from America
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Intolerable Acts
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were another name given to both the Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts
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colonists
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protested the Stamp Act by refusing to buy goods from Britain
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British
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brought temporary peace to the colonies after the Boston Massacre by repealing most of the Townshend Acts
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French and Indian War
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occurred because both the French and the British wanted the Ohio River Valley
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Seven Years War
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was the name of the war that eventually started as the French and Indian war between the French and the british but later spread to Europe
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United States
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as independent states, declared themselves able to establish trade with other nations and contract alliances
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George Washington
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was appointed as commander in chief of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress
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