Flashcards in Chpt 6 Deck (63):
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_____ sick
Pitt
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When was the boston massacre
March 5, 1770
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______ Bostonians died during the boston massacre because they threw ______ at British soldiers
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Snowballs
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Lord north became the new ______ ______
Prime minister
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Repealed Townsend acts because they're too _____ to enforce
Expensive
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They kept the tax on ______
Tea
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Committee of correspondence in ____
1772
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What two men ran the committee of correspondence
John Adams and Samuel Hancock
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What did the committee of corospondence do
Organized a group of 21 men to keep other colonies informed on problems with Britain
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When was the boston tea party
December 12 1773
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What company sold cheap tea
British east India company
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At The Boston tea party patriots dumped ______ chests of tea into __________
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Boston harbor
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The quartering act was when britishtroops could go into any _______
Building
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In the boston port bill, the boston port was closed until the patriots would ___________ no ships _____ no ships out
Pay their tea tax
In
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Quebec act in ______ scared the colonists because ________ was the religion of Quebec and they feared loosing religious freedom and being ruled by ______
1774
Catholicism
Pope
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When was the first continental congress?
September 5 1774
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Oct 14,1774 they recognized the ______ of _____
Authority of king
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Who said "give me liberty or give me death"? Who was if said to
Patrick Henry
House of burgesses
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Volunteer militia was _______
Minutemen
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First battle of revolution ?
Lexington and concord
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Shot heard round the world- what battle
Battle of Lexington and concord
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April ____, 1775 Brits head for concord
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What 3 men warns that the British were coming
Revere, Dawes,a nd prescott
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April _____ 1774 - British win battle of _______
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Lexington and concord
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Fall of fort Ticonderoga may _____(year)
1775
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Ethan Allen and green ______ boys capture fort ______
Mountain
Ticonderoga
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Fort Ticonderoga located on lake ______
Champlain
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2nd continental congress, John Hancock is ______ of congress
President
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2nd continental congress makes George W ______
Cheif of army
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Battle of bunker hill is 1st __________ of war
Major battle
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Battle of bunker hill is June ___ 1775 and actually in ______ hill
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Breeds
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Olive branch petition - _____ 1775
July
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Olive branch petition sent to George 3 by _____ asking for ______ terms
Loyalist colonies
Reasonable
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George 3 wanted ______
Submission
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Thomas Paine wrote book ______ ______ in ____ 1776
Common sense
January
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Declerarion of independence _____ _, ______
July 4,1776
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Deceleration of independence led by Thomas _____, all me are _____, resistance to _______ not law
Jefferson
Equal
Parliament
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Foreinf help for patriots from baron de ____, Kosciusko and Pulaski of ______
Kalb of Germany
Poland
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Capture of Trenton and Princeton in colony of ______
New Jersey
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December ______ Washington crosses Delaware (Christmas nught)
1776
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Nathan _____ hung by British ~ "I only regret I have but _____ ____ to lose for my ______"
Hale
One life
Country
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Battle at Saratoga _____(month) 1776
October
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Battle of Saratoga ~ turning ______ of war
Point
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Saratoga ~ Burgoyne surrenders to general ____
Gates
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Winter of valley forge _____-_____
1777-1778
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September ____ 1776 britishtroops capture city of _____
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Philadelphia
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Washington and troops flee to _______ ______ and ___ leave or die
Valley forge
1/2
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March ____ 1778, Washingtonian announces ____ are coming
5
French
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June _____ British withdraw from _____
1778
Philadelphia
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Capitol of colonies ~
Philadelphia
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Battle of Monmouth is _____ of 1778, Washington meets British when they were on their way to ___ ____
Summer
New York
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Molly ______ fires connoisseur hen soldiers were hurt
Pitcher
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George ____ Clarke and Kentucky ______ capture fort Vincennes in feb ____
Rodgers
Volunteers
1779
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______ Paul ______~ best know naval ______
John
Jones
Hero
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_______ strategy now used
Guerrilla
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Who was the patriot traitor?
Benedict Arnold
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Battle of kings mountain ____(month) 1778, major battle in ____
October
South
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Battle of kings Mountain; Nathaniel ____ "fighting ______" replaces gates
Greene
Quaker
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Yorktown Virginia October 178_, mouth of Chesapeake ___, British waiting for supplies from ______, we block the bay
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Bay
Ocean
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Yorktown - last ____ battle of war ends in ____
Major
1783
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Essay - treaty of Paris boundaries , when if was signed, whose land is returned, and British can still collect what
North to canada, west to missippi, south to florida. Signed sept 1783, loyalists land is returned, British still can collect american debts
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Washington attacked hessian a at what battle
Trenton
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