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a type of state controlled tax system. The economic system of colonialism. Colonies were made to benefit the mother nation. A source of raw materials, market for finished goods, the purpose is to create a self sufficient empire. Based on FAVORABLE balance of trade

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Mercantalism

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owned by individuals,

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Free Market Capitalism

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These government control of trade in the colonies

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Navigation Laws

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produce grown in American that could only be sold to england

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List of enumerated goods

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could only export manufactored goods in America

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restricting colonial manufactore

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no colonial banking system no colonial money

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currency

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first act against the colonies idea is to raise money for the colonies. protested and boycotted the tax

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1776 Sugar act

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required the colonies to provide housing and food to british troops

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1765 Quartering act

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tax to raise money in the colonies. Ink stamp on paper products. pays for the defense of the colonies

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Stamp Act 1765

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is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the British colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution.

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No Taxation Without Representation

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was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise .

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Stamp Act Congress or First Congress

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attacking british tax agents from England

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Sons and Daughters of Liberty

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Declaring they have a legal right to tax the colonies

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Declaratory Act

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chancellor of the exchequer

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Charles Townshend

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Series of taxes on glass, paper, and tea. Purpose is to pay the salaries of royal governors and judges enforces the townshend act by sending troops

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Townshend Act

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A clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War. The British fired into a crowd that was threatening them, killing five, including Crispus Attucks.

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Boston Massacre 1770

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Will defend the british soldiers. Defends them because america is a people of laws not men

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John Adams

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was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698.

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George I of Hanover

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Properganda leader will begin to lead the committee of corressponsdence, informs each community that informs each other of the british actions on the colonies

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Samuel Adams

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comes to parliament and asks for a monopoly for tea so that they can sell a tax tea with a monoploy. Americans would get a decent tea and they would get a discount

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The British East India Company

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Group that dressed as Indians dump 342 teas into the boston harbor called the famed event of what?

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Boston Tea Party

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What was the group behind the Boston Tea Party?

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The Sons of Liberty

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Another name for the Intolerable Acts?

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Cohersive Acts

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An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America. Would cause massive unemployment

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Boston Port Act

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This British act is going to extend Quebec into North America into the Mississippi Valley

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1774 Quebec Acts

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series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

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Intolerable Acts

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was a convention of delegates from thirteen colonies that met on ——-ber -th, —-, at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

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1774, The first continental congress

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was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution

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General Gage

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Meets in Philadelphia and forms a government and makes the Articles of Confederation.

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The second continental congress

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was a document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

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Articles of Confederation

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was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British militia.

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Paul Revere

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were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.

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Battle of Concord

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The leader of the Continental army. greatness contribution is that he kept the army together.

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George Washington

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An bookseller in Boston, was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary of War

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General Henry Knox

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was the plantation home of George Washington, first President of the United States.

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Mt.Vernon

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took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed’s Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War.

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Bunker Hill

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is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York in the United States. It was constructed by Canadian-born French military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between October 1755 and 1757 during the Seven Years’ War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the US. It was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played an important role during the American Revolutionary War.

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Ft.Ticonderoga

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was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army.

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Benedict Arnold

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was a farmer; businessman; land speculator; philosopher; writer; and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War along with Benedict Arnold.

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Ethan Allen

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Sled trail of guns stolen

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Knox Gun Trail

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What is Prescott’s famous quote?

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“Don’t fire until you see the white of their eyes”

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Grenade throwers in British infantry

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British Grenadier

43
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In this evacuation they leave with the loyalist

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British Evaculation of Boston

44
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Foreign troops sent by George III and hired by him

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Hessians

45
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In what year did the british fail to capture charleston

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1776

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is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America

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The Declaration of Independence

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An english man comes to america and writes 100 pages of an pamphlet. Influences the colonies to declare independence

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Thomas Paine

48
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What is the pamphlet called that Thomas paine writes

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Common Sense

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What are his two main reasonings

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A: Does not make commion sense that a tiny island should control the colonies
B: Only makes common that people who can govern themselves should govern themselves

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was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the “Father of Classical Liberalism”.

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John Locke

51
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An contract with the british government

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Social Contract

52
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What is I of declaration of independence and ABC of it?

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I New theory of government
A All men are created equal
B Govt by consent of governed
C Right to change government

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What is II of declation of indendpendence

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27 giveness vs king

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What is III of declaration of independence

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Declaration of independence + war

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Where did an significant amount of George Washington army escape to?

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New Jersey

56
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Set out from Pennslyvania with twenty-four hundted men to surprise the british forces

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Washington, Delaware river, 1776

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Small battle, big skrimish caught 1000 hessian soldiers

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Battle of Trenton

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Famous place that George Washington took his troops to

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Valley Forge

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was a Prussian-born military officer who served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Trained the American troops.

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General Von Steuben

60
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Washington will defeat brith as monmouth new jersey on what date?

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1778

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was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth.

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Molly Pitcher/M.mcaully

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was a British army officer. St. Leger was active in the Saratoga Campaign, commanding an invasion force that unsuccessfully besieged Fort Stanwix. remained on the frontier for the duration of the war; after its conclusion, he served briefly as commander of British forces in Quebec.

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British Lt.Col St.Leger

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Where will General Sturk defeat the british at

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Bennington,Vermont.

64
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An official american flag

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Bennington “76” flag

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comprising two significant battles during September and October of 1777, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.

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Saratoga, New York

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Killed leading trrops at the battle of Savannah

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General Pulaski

67
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Will be washington’s chief engineer

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Kościuszko

68
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Governor of New Orleans and Louisiana

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Spanish General Galvez

69
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The south are primary loyalist take Charleston and savannah

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Southern Campaign

70
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This was an war between American Patriots and American Loyalist

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Kings Mt. NC

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Where will Col Fergusion will die

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Kings MT.NC

72
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Will be an calvery fight

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Battle of Cowpens

73
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British general and he took no american prisoners was not respected

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Tarleton aka Bloody Tarleton

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founder of Louisville, Kentucky

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George Rogers Clark

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was a Scottish sailor and the United States’ first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made enemies among America’s political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this da

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John Paul Jones

76
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John Paul Jones ship

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Bon Homme Richard

77
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what is john paul jones famous quote?

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“I have not yet begun to fight”

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He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown.
was decisively defeated the following year by Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes, where he was captured. He was widely criticised for this. On his return to France, he demanded a court martial; he was acquitted of fault in his defeat.

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Fr adm De Grasse

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Rochembeau and washington

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go to virginia and trap the british

80
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Was an treaty designed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay. Negotiating behind french backs

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1783 Treaty of Paris

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In the 1783 treaty of paris what was the six amendment

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1 British recognizes us independence
2 US boundaries, north of spanish florida, east of mississppi, and south of the great lakes
3 Spanish Takes British Florida
4 Us fishing rights off new foundland canada
5 US will recommend that states retain loaylaist property and restore debts to britain that where pre war
6 France gets trading post off west of India

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Was an african american poet. She wrote patriotic poems

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Phyllis Wheatley

83
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Wife of John Adams will promote equal legal rights for women

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Abagail Adams

84
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will fight in unifrom in several battles

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Deborah Sampson

85
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mother of andrew jackson will die of disease on british prison ships

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elizabeth jackson

86
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loses his leg gets compensated and gets a colony called westpoint. Controls the hudson river from the atlantic to canada.

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Benedict Arnold

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