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History: Test 3 Flashcards

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George Washington

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Trenton and fight hessians

Yorktown to accept surrender of Cornwallis

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Boston Tea Party

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Reaction to tea ships in harbor at old south church right before British put Coercive Act in retaliation

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Boston Massacre

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Standoff between British and Patriots

March 5, 1770

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Charles Townsend

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Great Britain
Chancellor exchange
Imported taxes on used goods, mud, glass, paint, paper, and tea

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Lexington

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First battle of revelation

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Sons of Liberty

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Samuel Adams organized it

John Adams defended guys who left the soldiers at the Boston Massacre

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Patrick Henry

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“Give me liberty or give me death”

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Committee of Correspondence

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Precursor to Sons of Liberty

Spread word of protest

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Townshend Duties

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Lord North repealed it

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Charleston

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1 of 4 ports of tea

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Currency Act

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Prevent colonists from printing and using paper currency

Had to use gold and silver coins

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Benedict Arnold

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Patriot then went to British farmers

Battle was Quebec

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Paul Revere

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Midnight run
Alarm rider
Silversmith made fun of Boston Massacre

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James Otis

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Wrote right to British colonists assertive and proud

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John Burgoyne

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British

Lost at Saratoga

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George III

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King of Great Britain

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Crispus Atticus

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Black man killed in Boston Massacre

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Samuel Adams

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Organized Sons of Liberty

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Common Sense

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Thomas Parke

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Thomas Jefferson

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Wrote Declaration of Independence

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Ethan Allen

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Green Mountain Boys

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John Dickinson

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Letters

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Thomas Hutchinson

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Home destroyed

Lieutenant governor at St. Massachusetts

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Continental Congress

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Philadelphia 1774

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Coercive Act

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The Coercive Acts closed the ports of Boston until the leaders paid for the tea that was dumped into the harbor by the Sons of Liberty in 1773
The Coercive Act was passed by Parliament
Coercive means to force
The Coercive Act would force the colonists to follow laws they thought were unfair
The Coercive Act is a law to punish the colonist in Boston

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Pontiac

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Saratoga

Bailed on British

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Thomas Paine

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British governor of Massachusetts

General of British forces

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New Jersey Plan

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A proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787

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Old South Church

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Boston’s first church

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Yorktown

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The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Cornwallis to General George Washington, and the French Fleet during the American Revolutionary War on October 19, 1781

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The Great Compromise

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Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitutional
It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by James Madison, along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equally between the states.

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The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

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Underpinning the debate about the Revolutionary War

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John Adams

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A lawyer in Boston

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Richard Henry Lee

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American statesman

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Roger Sherman

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Early American lawyer, politician, and a founding father

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Stamp Act

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The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.
Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money

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Lord Cornwallis

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British army officer and colonial administrator

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Battle of Saratoga

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September 19 and October 7, 1777
Conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne’s army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war

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Letters from a Father in Pennsylvania

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Is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732-1808)

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Green Mountain Boys

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Were a militia organization first established in the 1760’s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants
-> Led by Ethan Allan

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