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Revolution in North America
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Elected legislative body in each colony
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an assembly
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Passed in 1764, it placed a tax on sweet goods brought into the colonies.
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the Sugar Act
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Mob action that dumped tea into Boston Harbor
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the Boston Tea Party
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Slogan about taxes, a rallying cry for colonists
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"no taxation without representation"
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English law-making body
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Parliament
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Rights the colonists insisted they had
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rights of Englishmen
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War that the British paid for by raising the colonists' taxes
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the French and Indian War
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Peace agreement that greatly expanded British control of North America
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the Treaty of Paris
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1765 law requiring a tax on all written documents
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the Stamp Act
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Refusal by the colonists to buy British or taxed goods
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a boycott
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Riot in which British soldiers shot some Boston colonists
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the Boston Massacre
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Trading company given the sole right to bring tea into the colonies
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the British East India Company
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Harsh laws passed to punish the Massachusetts Colony
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the Intolerable Acts
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Philadelphia meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in 1774
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the First Continental Congress
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The three types of the 13 British colonies
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royal, proprietary, and self-governing colonies
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Economic theory that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country
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mercantilism
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Laws that restricted colonial trade to English merchants and ships (1651-1750)
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the Navigation Acts
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Act restating Parliament's right to pass laws on all colonial matters
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the Declaratory Act
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Series of laws taxing colonial trade, starting in 1767
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the Townshend Acts
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Laws that protected the rights of French Catholics and extended Canadian boundaries
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the Quebec Act
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Commander of the colonial army
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George Washington
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Main author of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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King of England during the American Revolution
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George III
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Boston silversmith who made a famous "midnight ride"
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Paul Revere
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Slang term for a British soldier
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redcoat (or lobsterback)
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Colonial soldiers who could be ready to fight quickly
Definition
Minutemen
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German soldiers paid to fight for the English
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Hessians
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People who opposed the split with England
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Tories (or Loyalists)
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People who favored the split with England
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Patriots
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First man to sign the Declaration of Independence
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John Hancock
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Frenchman who was Washington's trusted aide
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the Marquis de Lafayette
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Prussian officer who trained American troops
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Baron Von Steuben
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Patriot author of Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
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British general who surrendered his army to end the war
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Lord Cornwallis
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American ambassador to France during the war
Definition
Benjamin Franklin
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Man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
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Patrick Henry
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Important author of the Constitution and fourth U.S. president
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James Madison
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Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts
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Samuel Adams
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The two outstanding Polish officers who served in the American army
Definition
Casimir Pulaski and Thaddeus Kosciusko
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The three men who represented America at the peace conference
Definition
Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams
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Colonial lawyer and Patriot who defended British soldiers after the Boston killings
Definition
John Adams
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Site of the Continental Congress
Definition
Philadelphia
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Winter headquarters of Washington's army in 1777-8
Definition
Valley Forge
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Site of famed battle in Boston
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Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
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New York fort that Benedict Arnold planned to turn over to the British
Definition
West Point
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Colony that took the lead in disobeying British laws
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Massachusetts
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Ocean separating England and the colonies
Definition
the Atlantic
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Colonial harbor closed by the British
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Boston Harbor
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Britain gained all territory east of this river from France.
Definition
the Mississippi
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Massachusetts towns where colonial troops first fired on British troops
Definition
Lexington and Concord
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The British planned to cut the colonies in two along this river.
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the Hudson
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Site of a major American victory in New York in 1777
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Saratoga
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Site of final American victory in 1781
Definition
Yorktown
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City where the peace treaty was negotiated
Definition
Paris
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Bodies of water on the new northern boundary of the United States
Definition
the Great Lakes
Term
Spanish territory that marked the new southern boundary of the United States
Definition
Florida
Term
English settlers in this territory gained rights after the war.
Definition
Canada
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The two self-governing colonies
Definition
Connecticut and Rhode Island
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The two Canadian cities the colonists tried to seize in 1775
Definition
Quebec and Montreal
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City evacuated by the British in 1776 after a colonial siege
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Boston
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City where the American army was almost trapped
Definition
New York
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City where the British army spent the winter of 1777-8
Definition
Philadelphia
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State that did not take part in the Constitutional Convention
Definition
Rhode Island
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Document that explained why the colonies had to separate from England
Definition
the Declaration of Independence
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The new nation formed by the colonies
Definition
the United States of America
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Document that created a new form of government in 1789
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the Constitution of the United States
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Type of government like ancient Rome's that the U.S. Constitution established
Definition
a republic
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The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
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the Bill of Rights
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British strength lay in the size and power of these forces.
Definition
its army and navy
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U.S. system of gov't - powers divided between central government and individual states
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a federal system
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Group that met in 1775 and voted to declare independence
Definition
the Second Continental Congress
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Condition of all men, according to the Declaration
Definition
"created equal and/or with unalienable rights"
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Power that the Continental Congress did not have but needed
Definition
the power to tax
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Major European power that became an American ally in 1778
Definition
France
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Agreement establishing the first postwar government
Definition
the Articles of Confederation
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Fighting force of each state or colony
Definition
the militia
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Under the Articles, the United States had none of these courts.
Definition
U.S. (federal) courts
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Americans' preferred way of fighting
Definition
guerrilla style ("Indian style")
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The three negative characteristics of the American army
Definition
untrained, poorly organized, inadequately equipped
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Peace agreement that settled the war in 1783
Definition
the Peace of Paris
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British act divided Canada into two provinces, one mostly British and one mostly French
Definition
the Constitutional Act
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European countries that had claims on the North American continent in 1783
Definition
Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia
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