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11 Cards in this Set
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Great Awakening
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a religious revival era that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 40s
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Intolerable Acts
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a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America
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Patriots
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bold supporters of their nation
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Battle of Saratoga
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the turning point in the war
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Treaty of Paris
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an agreement of peace with France
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French and Indian War
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a war between the French and the Indian from 1756-1763
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First and Second Continental Congress Meetings
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution
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Triangular Trade
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a trade route that started in the West Indies that traded molasses to New England which turned the molasses into rum and the traded it to Africa for slaves. It shaped a triangle.
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Thomas Paine/ Common Sense
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Thomas Paine was an American patriot who wrote a document stating that a small island shouldn't have control of a massive continent, and other logical things that were wrong
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Loyalists
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people who lived in the American Colonies but remained loyal to Britain
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Battle of Yorktown
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the final battle of the American revolution
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