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36 Cards in this Set
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Stamp Act |
a law placed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed almost all printed material in the Colonies |
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Patrick Henry |
a young member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who persuaded the burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act
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Samuel Adams |
one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty Massachusetts |
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Sons of Liberty |
members took to the streets to protest the Stamp Act; organized in many cities |
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Declaratory Act |
Acts passed in 1766 that stated the Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British Colonies |
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Townshend Acts |
a set of laws passed in 1767 that taxed only imported goods with the tax being paid at the port of entry
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Daughters of Liberty |
groups organized by women to support the boycott of British goods
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Crispus Attucks |
an African dock worker who was killed in the Boston Massacre
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Boston Massacre |
the tragic encounter between British soldiers and angry colonists which led to the death of 5 colonists
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Paul Revere |
a colonist who made an engraving of the Boston Massacre (showing a British officer to open fire on an orderly crowd); his point was to encourage a wide audience to rise up against Britain |
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Boston Tea Party |
an opposition of the Tea Act, which occurred in Boston Harbor where angry colonists threw 342 chests of tea overboard; news of it spread throughout the colonies and Boston paid for their actions |
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Intolerable Acts |
the colonists' term for a series of punitive laws passed the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party King George III realized he was losing control of the colonies and set out to punish them; closed Boston Harbor, prohibited town meetings, forced colonists to shelter British soldiers in their homes |
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King George III |
the king of Britain at the time of the Revolution |
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Coercive Acts |
laws passed by Parliament in 1774 which intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance (in response to the Boston Massacre); it closed Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for their ruined tea and took away many of the rights of the Massachusetts colonists |
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First Continental Congress |
an organization of delegates from all the colonies (except Georgia) to establish a political body to represent the colonies
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Richard Henry Lee |
one of the most outspoken defenders of colonial rights
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John Adams |
successful lawyer, cousin of Sam Adams
Massachusetts |
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George Washington |
Virginia delegate would become important military leader |
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Lexington and Concord |
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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Green Mountain Boys |
led by Ethan Allen, a small group of New Englanders who captured Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain
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Ethan Allen |
led the Green Mountain boys on a victorious attack on Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain
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Fort Ticonderoga |
British fort, situated on Lake Champlain, which was captured by the Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys |
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Bunker Hill |
a battle won by the British, but suffered more than 1,000 dead/wounded Colonial general William Prescott |
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Loyalist |
colonist who chose to stay loyal to Britain
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Patriot |
colonist determined to fight the British, declare independence and form a new nation
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Benjamin Franklin |
an influential member of the Pennsylvania legislature who acted as a colonial spokesman in London
he argued for a united government in the colonies (Albany Plan of Union then Constitution) |
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John Hancock |
one of the wealthiest colonists who funded many of the Patriot groups, including the Sons of Liberty chosen as President of the Second Continental Congress one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence |
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Thomas Jefferson |
a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who became associated with the movement for independence |
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Benedict Arnold |
an American who led an attack on Quebec that failed |
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Common Sense |
pamphlet published by Thomas Paine that called for complete independence from Great Britain |
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Thomas Paine |
a colonist who captured the attention of other colonist by publishing a pamphlet called Common Sense
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Second Continental Congress |
a meeting that was held in Philadelphia that concerned the issue occupying the delegates -- should the colonies declare themselves as an independent nation or should they stay under British rule?
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Declaration of Independence |
a document written by Thomas Jefferson that stated that the colonies should be free from Britain
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All men are created equal |
How the Declaration of Independence begins, with universal principles of basic human rights (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) |
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Preamble |
introduction that states that people who wish to form a new country should explain their reasons for doing so
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Abigail Adams |
John Adams wife wrote a letter to him that said the delegates should remember all men would be tyrants if they could and that if particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are prepared to foment a rebellion |