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American Revoltion TEST Flashcards

1
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Stamp act

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Tax on all printed materials

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Townshend Act

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Taxes on imported goods such as glass, lead, and tea

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3
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Tea act

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Gave the company a monopoly on the sale of tea

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4
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Boston tea party

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Sons of liberty members dumped tea in to the harbor

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5
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Charles town

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The greatest victory of the British

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Egalitarianism

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A belief in the equality Of all people

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7
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Patriots

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Whigs - in favor of the revolution

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Prohibitory Act

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Great Britain ended all trade with the colonies

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Sons of liberty

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The group that protesters for the whole war

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10
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Quarting act

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Put the soldiers in there house

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Committees of correspondence

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Underground spy networks that kept an eye on British movements enforced the boycott

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12
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Continental congress

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Statement of grievances (complaints / demands)

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13
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Common sense

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Thomas Paine author

List of reasons why the Americans should from the British

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14
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Olive branch petition

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The continental congress called for a return a “the former harmony” between Great Britian and the colonies

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15
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Saragota

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Turning point of the war

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16
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Declaratory Act

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Stated that England still had the power to govern and the tax the colonies

17
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Coercive act

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They were the intolerable acts

18
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Boston Massacre

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Led by Samuel Adams
Used as a propaganda
5 colonies killed

19
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Bunker hill

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The first battle that started the revolutionary

20
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Philadelphia

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Continental congress abandons the city

Washington and americas lose the city in a series of battles

21
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Loyalists

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Tories - opposed for independence and remained loyal to the crown

22
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Paris

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Treaty of Paris

Official end of the war

23
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Yorktown

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Trapped the British surrender

October 17,1781 the war is over

24
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New York

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Battle lowest point in the war - all looked lost

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