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War Flashcards

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Milita

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A small army made up of ordinary citizens

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Rebel

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Patriots

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Repeal

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To take back or to cancel the war

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Liberty

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Freedom

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Boycott

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Refuse

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Loyalist

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People in the American colonies who wanted the colonies to remain under control of king and Great Britain

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Patriot

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People who wanted to break away from Great Britain

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Neutralist

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American colonists who did not support earthier side of the colonists

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Traitor

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A person guilty of acting against his or her own country

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First continental congress

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Write a letter to king George to stop intolerable act but he said “no”

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American revolution

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political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791.

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Battle of bunker hill

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The first battle that gave to patriots confidence

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Boston tea party

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Colonists in the harbor that poured all of the taxed tea in the water

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Committees of correspondence

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Communication system

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Townshed acts

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Act made up of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

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Intolerable acts

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Sires of laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston’s tea party the laws aimed to Massachusetts colonists to protest the tea act

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Sons of liberty

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A political group of people

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Town meeting

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A place where they disused war

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Treason

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The crime of disloyalty towards a leader or government

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Stamps act

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A act that the British put tax on paper goods.

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Minute men

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A group of people that are colonists/patriots

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Assembly

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A group of government officials who meet and make laws

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Delegate

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a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.

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Petition

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a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.

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