American History Chapter 6

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Conciliatory Proposition

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Plan whereby Parliament would "forbear" taxation of Americans in colonies whose assemblies imposed taxes considered satisfactory by the British government

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Committee of Safety

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Any extralegal committees that directed the revolutionary movement and carried on the functions of government at the local level in the period between the breakdown of royal authority and the establishment of regular government

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Minute Men

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Special companies of militias formed in Massachusetts and elsewhere beginning in late 1774

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Battles of Lexington and Concord

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The first 2 battles of the American Revolution, that resulted in a total of 273 British soldiers dead, wounded, and missing and nearly 100 American dead, wounded, and missing. Battle of Lexington had the first American major causalities.

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Second Continental Congress

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Convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775. Called for the Patchwork of local forces to be organized into the Continental Army, authorized the formation of a navy, established a post office, and printed paper continental dollars to meet its expenses

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Continental Army

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The regular or professional army authorized by the Second Continental Congress and commanded by General George Washington during the Revolutionary war

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Olive Branch Petition

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A last effort for peace that avowed America's loyalty to George III and requested that he protect them from further aggressions

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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms

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Declaration of the Second Continental Congress that Americans were ready to fight for freedom and liberty

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Declaration of Independence

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The document by the Second Continental Congress announced and justified its decision to renounce the colonies' allegiance to the British government

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contract theory of government

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The belief that government is established by human beings to protect certain rights-such as life, liberty, and property-that are theirs by natural, divinely sanctioned law and that when government protects these rights people are obligated to obey it.

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Republican

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Used to describe a theory derived from the political idea of classical antiquity, Renaissance Europe, and early modern England. Republicanism is a belief that self-government by the country, or their representatives, provided a more reliable foundation for the good society and individual freedom rather than the ruling of kings.

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Valley Forge

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Area of Pennsylvania about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia where George Washington's troops were quartered from December 1777 to June 1778 while British forces occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War

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Peace of Paris

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Treaties signed in 1783 by Great Britain, the United States, France, Spain, and the Netherlands that ended Revolutionary war

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The Battle of Mammoth Court House

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The last major military engagement in the North that was in the Revolutionary War

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John Paul Jones

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Said "I have not yet begun to fight" when he refused to surrender the Americans.

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Fort Ticonderoga

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In Lake Champlain New York

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American Revolutionary Flag

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Bore the motto "Don't Tread on Me"

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Battle of Charleston

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Represented the worst American defeat in Revolutionary war history

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Benedict Arnold

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Offered to Surrender West Pointe to the British

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Battle of Saratoga

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Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. General Burgoyne surrendered to American General Gates

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Original 3 elements of the Declaration of Indepence

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1. Life

2. Liberty

3. Property