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| are money paid to the government to run the country. |
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| “No taxation without representation” |
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| was a protest developed in the colonies because the people felt it was not fair to pay taxes to a government in which they had no voice. |
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| was the colonists’ response to the tax on tea. |
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| Crispus Attucks, a young black worker, was killed at |
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| the Boston Massacre by soldiers who fired on a mob of protestors. |
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| is a government in which the people take part. |
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| A group of revolutionaries who wanted the colonists to be free from England was the |
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| The Declaration of Independence was |
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| the document written mainly by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, officially declaring America’s independence from Britain. |
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| Along with Paul Revere, William Dawes |
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| made a famous ride in the night to warn the people of Massachusetts that the British were coming. |
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| The war in which America fought against Britain in the 1700’s to gain independence is called |
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| The fighting that marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War took place in the Massachusetts cities of |
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| American colonists who were against the British were called |
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| the leader of the American army during the Revolutionary War. |
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| Common Sense and urged Americans to break away from Britain. |
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| Washington’s army spent a terrible winter in |
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| Valley Forge, Pennsylvania where many men died or deserted. |
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| helped as a nurse and knitted socks and scarves for the soldiers at Valley Forge. |
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| Molly Pitcher, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, |
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| carried water to the soldiers during the battles, and she picked up the ramrod to help fire the cannons after her husband was killed in the fighting. |
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| wrote her husband, John Adams, to remind him that the framers of the Declaration of Independence should “remember the ladies” when they were creating their new country. |
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| American colonists who wanted to stay as a British colony and remain loyal to the English king. |
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| The Battle of King’s Mountain |
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| took place in northern South Carolina where the Patriot militia held a battle against Major Patrick Ferguson and his band of Tory sympathizers. This great victory for the Patriots was a turning point in the war in favor of the Patriots. |
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| a Philadelphia printer who was also a diplomat for the American colonies to France. He helped convince many who were undecided about the cause of independence at the Continental Congress to vote for freedom from England. |
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| a Virginia representative who wanted independence so much that he stood on the floor of the hall in Philadelphia and shouted, “Give me liberty or give me death!” |
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| a young French nobleman who came to America to help the colonies win their independence from England. |
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| Countries that are friends in war are called |
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| The American victory at the Battle of Saratoga |
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| led France to join America’s side in the Revolutionary War. |
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| The Battle of Cowpens took place |
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| in the upper part of South Carolina near a place where cattle were kept. It turned out to be an important victory for the Patriots. |
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| The Battle of Yorktown proved |
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| that the Patriots had won the Revolutionary War. |
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