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| Founder of Rhode Island. Believed people should be free to follow their conscience on religious matters. |
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| Set up a civil government. Basis for constitution. All who signed agreed to obey its laws. |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| Written by Thomas Hooker in 1639 as a plan of government. The first constitution in America. |
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| Wealthy English Quaker given lands by the king in payment for a debt. Founded Pennsylvania in 1680. Saw it as experiment to see if people could live together according to Quaker ideals. |
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| Someone owning a stake in a proprietary colony. |
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| Jamestown-tobacco, John Rolfe, Pocahantas |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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Preamble explained why the colonies were building a new nation.
Jefferson based it on the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights.
Relied on Enlightenment thinkers like Locke's theory that people have certain natural rights. |
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| Peace negotiations at the end of the war that recognized the Americans' independence. Benjamin Framklin, John Adams, and John Jay represented the US. |
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| Coercive or Intolerable Act |
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| Americans who supported independence |
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| French Marquis who believed in the Americans' fight and an aide to Washington. |
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| Author of "Common Sense" which argued independence was the only way the Americans would gain their rights. |
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| American naval officer who fought the British warships. Surrendered in 1779 after saying "I have not yet begun to fight." |
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| Signed Declaraation of Independence. Helped draft the constitution. Negotiated Treaty of Paris in France. |
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| Battle of Lexington & Concord |
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| 1777, England planned to split the colonies by taking control of the Hudson River valley. Americans surrounded the English before reinforcements could arrive. This was the first major victory for the Americans. |
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| Where Washington & the Continental Army spent a long, harsh winter. |
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| Hit-and-Run attacks by small bands of soldiers. |
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| People who fought for England and were loyal to the King. |
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They fought on their own land
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The American people cared more than the English. They were fighting for their own land and way of life. |
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