US History Chapter 4: American Revolution – Flashcards
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Sugar Act
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tax on imports to help pay off British war debt, indirect tax
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Stamp Act
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tax on paper goods
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Tea Act
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its purpose was to help bail out East India Company
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Boston Tea Party
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342 chests of tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor
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Committee of Correspondence
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protest against townshed act
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natural rights
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life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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Thomas Paine
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wrote Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson
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wrote Declaration of Independence
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First Continental Congress
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all colonies except Georgia participated, wrote grievancecs and rights against King
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Second Continental Congress
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Olive Branch Petition to King George 3, contiental army was formed, and money started to print
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Gen. William Howe
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Britian general
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Gen. Cornwallis
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Britian general who surrendered at Yorktown
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Minutemen
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fought only for their colony and not for the colonies as a whole
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Loyalist
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loyal to King
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Patriots
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want independence
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George Washington
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general of American army after Second Continental Congress
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Declaration of Independence
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sent to the King of what the colonists want
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Hessians
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German soliders that the British hired
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Saratoga
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turning point of the war
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Kings Mtn
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turning point in the South
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Yorktown
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where war ended
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Treaty of Paris
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America is a nation, Florida given to Spain, land up to Mississippi
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"the shot heard around the world"
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ralph waldo emerson @ lexington and concord
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"give me liberty or give me death"
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patrick henry
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"don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
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william prescott @ losing bunker hill
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"i only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
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Nathan Hale as a spy
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"I have not yet begun to fight"
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John Paul Jones @ sea battle
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what type of govt did most of colonies have?
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two houses, house of rep and senate, copied after british
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how did the colonist oppose British taxes?
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violent, boycotts, and intelligent protest
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where were the first patriots (minutemen) killed?
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lexington and concord
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how did the fronteir war affect the relationship between settlers and indians?
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indians sided with british
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when the british started losing battles in the south, how did the loyalist react?
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hated them and thought they were doing something illegally wrong
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dates of the american revolution
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1775-1781
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causes of american revolution
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pontiacs rebellion, proclamation of 1763, taxes to pay off britian war debt
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battle of trenton
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americans ambushed hessians
