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Social Studies
8th Grade
04/12/2012

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Term
American Revolution Era, 1775 - 1783
Definition

[image]Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

Term
1776
Definition

*Adoption of the Declaration of Independence

*Main Author: Thomas Jefferson

*Committee Included: Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Livingston

 *“Common Sense”

Written by: Thomas Paine

Term
Causes of the American Revolution
Definition

·       Proclamation of 1763

·       Stamp Act

·       Intolerable Acts

·       Mercantilism

·       Lack of representation in Congress

British economic policies following the French and Indian War

Term
Proclamation of 1763
Definition
*British Parliament law; colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, *Britain wanted a buffer zone between the colonists and the Native Americans, but the colonists wanted to settle the fertile Ohio River Valley
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