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40 Cards in this Set
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Samuel Adams
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Genuine Revolutionary, promoted colonial resistance to GB
signed the Dec of Ind After Rev: insisted equality was essential to republic |
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Albany Congress and Plan
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Created by Ben Franklin
Grand Council (elected delegates from colonies) Oversee common defense, western expansion, Indian aff. |
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Pedro Menendrez de Aviles
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Spanish Seaman
Founder of St Augustine, first colony in America one of 19 brothers and sisters |
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Boston Massacre
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annoyed colonists started throwing rocks at Brit Soliders
Brits retailiated, killing 5 Amer Used as propeganda and blow out of proportion |
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Boston Tea Party
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Bc of Tea Act, colonists boycotted British tea in Boston
Group of men disguised as Mowhaks dumped 340 chests overboard Led to Coercive Acts |
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Edmund Burke
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British politcal thinker
high position in Whig Party |
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Cato's Letters
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wrote by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, commonwealthmen
series of essays 1720-1723 if Eng gov't corrupt then balanced constitution could not save ppl from tyranny |
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Thomas Chippendale
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GB most famous furniture designer
work copied in colonies |
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Coercive Acts
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aka Intolerable Acts
closed port of Boston until it paid for tea throw overboard quartered troops in Boston |
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Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
convinced many Amer to want independence also said Amer could win the war |
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Commonwealthmen
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radical publictists
cried out against political corruption most famous John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon |
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Lord Cornwallis
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British general
Est. base at Yorktown, VA French cut him off at sea, Brit on land, forced to surrender |
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Declaration of Independence
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Written by Thomas Jefferson
Passed on July 2nd at the 2nd Cont. Cong. Was for the Amer independence from GB |
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Declaratory Act
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1766
GB had sovereignty over colonies no matter what ignored in celebration of repeal of Stamp Act |
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Jonathan Edwards
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Congregational minister in Mass
sparked Great Awakening there Bc of his preaching, brought many young ppl back to church |
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English Constiution
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not formally written document
had 3 distinct parts; monarch, House of Lords, House of Commons meant to end corruption, didnt work |
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Benjamin Franklin
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regarded as genunine philosophe
many experiments, electricity Albany Plan |
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General Gage
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British general
apointed by Geogre III to be Mass new royal governor rigorously enforced Brit laws in colonies |
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Thomas Gordon
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
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John Trenchard
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
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Commonwealthmen
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radical publictists
cried out against political corruption most famous John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon |
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Lord Cornwallis
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British general
Est. base at Yorktown, VA French cut him off at sea, Brit on land, forced to surrender |
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Declaration of Independence
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Written by Thomas Jefferson
Passed on July 2nd at the 2nd Cont. Cong. Was for the Amer independence from GB |
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Declaratory Act
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1766
GB had sovereignty over colonies no matter what ignored in celebration of repeal of Stamp Act |
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Jonathan Edwards
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Congregational minister in Mass
sparked Great Awakening there Bc of his preaching, brought many young ppl back to church |
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English Constiution
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not formally written document
had 3 distinct parts; monarch, House of Lords, House of Commons meant to end corruption, didnt work |
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Benjamin Franklin
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regarded as genunine philosophe
many experiments, electricity Albany Plan |
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General Gage
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British general
apointed by Geogre III to be Mass new royal governor rigorously enforced Brit laws in colonies |
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Thomas Gordon
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
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John Trenchard
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
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Commonwealthmen
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radical publictists
cried out against political corruption most famous John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon |
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Lord Cornwallis
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British general
Est. base at Yorktown, VA French cut him off at sea, Brit on land, forced to surrender |
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Declaration of Independence
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Written by Thomas Jefferson
Passed on July 2nd at the 2nd Cont. Cong. Was for the Amer independence from GB |
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Declaratory Act
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1766
GB had sovereignty over colonies no matter what ignored in celebration of repeal of Stamp Act |
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Jonathan Edwards
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Congregational minister in Mass
sparked Great Awakening there Bc of his preaching, brought many young ppl back to church |
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English Constiution
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not formally written document
had 3 distinct parts; monarch, House of Lords, House of Commons meant to end corruption, didnt work |
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Benjamin Franklin
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regarded as genunine philosophe
many experiments, electricity Albany Plan |
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General Gage
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British general
apointed by Geogre III to be Mass new royal governor rigorously enforced Brit laws in colonies |
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Thomas Gordon
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
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John Trenchard
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one of most famous Commonwealthmen
publictist helped write Cato's Letters |
