Chapters 5-6

Question 1

During the Seven Years’ War, Britain treated the colonies as their

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ally

Question 2

After the Seven Years’ War, London insisted that the colonists play

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a subordinate role to the mother country and help pay for the protection the British provided.

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Members of the British Parliament had

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virtual representation

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The colonists argued London could not tax them because

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they were underrepresented in Parliament.

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threatened the profits of colonial merchants.

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The Sugar Act of 1764 and a revenue act

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was a direct tax on all sorts of printed materials.

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The Stamp Act of 1765

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was wide-reaching and offended virtually every free colonist.

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stamp act

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the first great drama of the Revolutionary era and the first major split between the colonists and Great Britain over the meaning of freedom.

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Opposition to the Stamp Act

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American leaders viewed the British empire as

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an association of equals in which free settlers overseas enjoyed the same rights as Britons at home.

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met in 1765 to endorse Virginia’s House of Burgesses’ resolutions.

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stamp act congress

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big player of stamp act congress

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patrick henry

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No word was more frequently invoked by critics of the Stamp Act than

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“liberty.”

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A Committee of Correspondence was created in Boston and other colonies to

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exchange ideas about resistance.

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were organized to resist the Stamp Act and to enforce a boycott of British goods.

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sons of liberty

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London repealed the Stamp Act, but issued the

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declaratory act

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Two groups in the Carolinas were known as

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regulators

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The South Carolina Regulators consisted of

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wealthy backcountry residents who protested their underrepresentation in the colonial assembly and the lack of local governments.

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The North Carolina Regulator

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s mobilized small farmers upset with corrupt local government run by elites.

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defeated the North Carolina Regulators at the battle of Alamance (1771), which ended their protests.

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NC Militia

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imposed taxes on imported goods.

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1767 Townshend Acts

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By 1768, colonies were again

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boycotting brit goods

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ather than rely on British goods, colonists relied on

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omespun clothing; use of American goods came to be seen as a symbol of American resistance.

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strongly supported the boycott.

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strongly supported the boycott.

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The March 1770 conflict between Bostonians and British troops left five Bostonians, including a mixed-race sailor named Crispus Attucks, dead.

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boston massacure

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The boycott ended after the Townshend duties were

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repealed; only tax on tea

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convinced many settlers that England was succumbing to the same pattern of political corruption and decline of liberty that afflicted other countries.

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The treatment of John Wilkes and the rumors of Anglican bishops being sent to America

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was in financial crisis, and the British government decided to market the company's Chinese tea in North America.

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East India Company

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was intended to aid the East India Company and to defray the costs of colonial government.

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tea act

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December 16, 1773: colonists threw more than 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

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Boston Tea PArty

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London's response to the Bostonians' action was

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swift and harsh with the so-called Intolerable Acts.

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granted religious toleration for Catholics in Canada.

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Quebec Acts

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The Continental Congress

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To resist the Intolerable Acts, a Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1774.

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The Congress adopted the Continental Association, which called for

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n almost complete halt to trade with Great Britain and the West Indies.

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enlarged the political nation.

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committees of safety

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By 1775, talk of this in colonies

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liberty

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As the crisis deepened, Americans increasingly based their claims not simply on the historical rights of Englishmen but on

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the more abstract language of natural rights and universal freedom. John Locke Thomas Jefferson

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In April 1775, war broke out at

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Lexington and Concord.

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was a British victory, but the colonists forced General Howe from Boston by March 1776.

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Battle of Bunker HIll

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raised an army and appointed George Washington its commander.

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The Second Continental Congress

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That the goal of this war was was not clear by the end of 1775.

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independence

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Opinions ____ in the colonies as to the question of independence.

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varied

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Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776, which criticized

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which criticized monarchy and aristocracy.

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Paine deemed absurd a

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a small island ruling a continent.

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Paine tied the economic hopes of the new nation to

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the idea of commercial freedom.

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Paine argued that America would become a haven for , "an asylum for mankind."

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liberty

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e dramatically expanded the public sphere where

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political discussion took place.

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He pioneered before him.

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a new style of political writing, engaging a far greater audience

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His persuasions led the Second Continental Congress to sever

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the colonies' ties with Great Britain.

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declared the United States an independent nation.

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declaration of indep.

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gave dec impact

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Jefferson's preamble

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completed the shift from the rights of Englishmen to

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o the rights of mankind as the object of American independence.

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The "pursuit of happiness"

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was unique

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The idea of was prevalent in the Revolution.

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"American exceptionalism"

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Although for most Americans winning international recognition for their independence trumped concern for global human rights, Thomas Jefferson hoped the Declaration

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would inspire others to claim liberty and self-government.

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Numerous anticolonial movements, such as have modeled their own declarations of independence on America's.

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Vietnam in 1945,

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The Declaration's principle that political authority rests on the will of has been influential around the world

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"the people"

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Britain had the advantage of a large, professional

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army and navy

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Patriots had the advantages of fighting on

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their own soil and a passionate desire for freedom.

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George Washington accepted black recruits after

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Lord Dunmore's proclamation offered freedom to slaves who fought for the British.

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enlisted in state militias and the Continental army and navy.

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Five thousand African-Americans

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Some slaves gained freedom by serving in place of

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an owner.

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Siding with the British offered slaves

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far more opportunities for liberty.

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The war initially went ___ for Washington; many of his troops went home.

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badly

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Washington managed a successful surprise attack on

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Trenton and Princeton.

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in October 1777 gave the patriots a victory and boost to morale.

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he Battle of Saratoga

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The victory convinced the___ to aid the Americans in 1778.

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French

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The focus of the war shifted to the____ in 1778.

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South

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British commanders were unable to consolidate their hold on the South.

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thats it

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American and French troops surrounded , where he surrendered in October 1781.

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General Cornwallis at Yorktown

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was signed in September 1783.

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The Treaty of Paris

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The American delegation was made up of

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John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay.