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| Ottawa chief who led a confederation of tribes in a bloody uprising against England |
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| American Lawyer who addressed the House of Burgesses with a plea for the colonies to fight for their freedom |
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| became King of England in 1760;ruled during America’s War for independence |
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| became prime minister of England in 1763;instituted a program of new taxes and stricter trade regulation for the colonies |
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| Boston Lawyer who published, “the rights of the British colonies asserted and approved” |
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| led the protest against the stamp act in Massachusetts; organized the sons of liberty and helped form the first committee of correspondence |
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| one of parliaments most respected members; rejected the idea of, “virtual representation” for the colonies |
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| Irish statesman who defended the colonies before parliamen |
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| became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1767; responsible for the, “Townshend Acts” which included the infamous tea tax |
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| Pennsylvania lawyer who drafted the resolutions of the stamp act congress; wrote the pamphlet entitled, “Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British colonies” |
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| replaced Hutchison as royal governor of Massachusetts |
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| Paul Revere, William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott |
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| rode through the night of April 18, 1775 to warn their country of the British march on Lexington |
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| black American Patriot who fought with the Massachusetts minutemen in Lexington |
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| formed a frontier militia known as the, “Green Mountain Boys”; captured fort Ticonderoga |
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| elected president of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in May 1775 |
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| appointed commander in chief of the colonial army |
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| where the first shot was fired in the War for Independence on April 19, 1775 |
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| where the British proceeded after they left Lexington |
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| British fort on the shores of lake Champlain; guarded the main road between Canada and New York; captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys |
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| one of the two hills overlooking the city of Boston; location of the first major battle of the War for Independence |
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| The three acts that regulated colonial industry |
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| Woolens Act, Hat Act, and Iron Act |
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| How ministers were paid in Colonial Virginia |
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| through taxes on the colonists |
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| The pamphlet written by James Otis |
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| “The rights of the British colonies asserted and approved” |
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| The three parts of the Stamp Act Congress petition |
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| It petitioned the king (1) To defend their rights as Englishmen to resist taxation without due representation (2) to restore their royal charters (3) to restore the land grants given to the original colonies |
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| Three famous members of the Committees of Correspondence in Virginia |
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| Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson |
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| The acts that compromised the coercive acts |
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| Boston Port Bill, Administration of Justice, Massachusetts Government Act, and Quartering Act |
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| The location and convening date of the First Continental Congress |
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| Philadelphia; September 5, 1774 |
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| Three British Commanders who joined General Gage in Boston |
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| Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne |
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| The actual location of the Battle of Bunker’s Hill |
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