American History Staar Review- Colonization And Revolution

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What were the New England colonies?

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In the North...Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island

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What were the Middle colonies?

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New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

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What were the Southern colonies?

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Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

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Bernardo de Galvez

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A Spaniard who provided weapons, gunpowder and other supplies for the Continental Army

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Wentworth Cheswell

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An African American who rode to New Hampshire to warn the British were coming

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Articles of Confederation

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Winning the American Revolution, passing the Northwest Ordinance, and the Land Ordinance were successes under the?

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ally

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Forming a friendship or partnership with another nation

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James Armistead

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An African American who worked as a "double–agent" for the United States during the American Revolution

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1776

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The year the Declaration of Independence was adopted – stated that the 13 colonies were a free and independent nation

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1787

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The year of the Philadelphia Convention which was called to revise the Articles of Confederation; wrote a new constitution

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Proclamation of 1763

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Stated that Americans could NOT move west of the Appalachian Mountains

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Sugar Act

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Tax on sugar and other products shipped to the colonies; raise revenue to help pay for the French and Indian War (1764)

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Stamp Act

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Tax on documents and other paper items; direct tax (1765)

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Parliament

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Americans believed that England could not tax them because the colonies had no representative in ?

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Sons of Liberty

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Organized to protest the British taxes

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Navigation Act

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Laws passed by Parliament to enforce Mercantilism

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Townshend Acts

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Tax on glass, lead, paint, etc (1767)

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Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks and 4 others were killed by British troops; Paul Revere made a wood carving showing the American view of what happened (1770)

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Boston Tea Party, tarring and feathering of tax collectors

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An example of how the Americans protested unfair taxes during the Colonial Era

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Intolerable Acts

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Passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party

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1st Continental Congress

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First colonial effort to act together to protest English policies; met in response to the Intolerable Acts (1774)

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Samuel Adams

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Leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty; organized the Committees of Correspondence

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King George III

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King of England during the American Revolution

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Loyalists

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Supported the King during the American Revolution

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Patriots

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Supported the rebels during the American Revolution

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote Common Sense, explaining why Americans should split from England; England is too far away to rule us (1776)

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Declaration of Independence

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Mostly written by Thomas Jefferson; declared that the 13 colonies were a free and independent nation; explained why we were rebelling (1776)

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Abigail Adams

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An early proponent of women's rights; urged her husband to "remember the ladies" in the Declaration of Independence

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unalienable rights

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Rights that cannot be taken away; listed in the Declaration of Independence as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

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Articles of Confederation

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First blueprint for the new American government; formed a loose alliance of 13 independent states; only had one branch (legislative) and did not have power to tax.

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Lexington and Concord

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First battle of the American Revolution; took place in Massachusetts; Paul Revere made his famous ride.

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Saratoga

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The turning point of the American Revolution; this win convinced France to help us

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Yorktown

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Last major battle of the American Revolution. Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington in Virginia

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George Washington

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Commander–in–chief of the Continental Army

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Ben Franklin

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Urged the French to support the Americans during the American Revolution; helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, 1783

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Treaty of Paris, 1783

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Ended the American Revolution; set the western boundary at the Mississippi River

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Northwest Ordinance

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Passed by the Confederation Congress; established the pattern by which the rest of the West would be settled; required 60,000 people in a territory before it could apply for statehood (1787)

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Marquis de Lafayette

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French nobleman helped my friend ,George Washington, train the troops.

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Haym Solomon

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Polish-born Jewish immigrant and considered a financial hero. I helped raise most of the money to finance the American Revolution.

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John Paul Jones

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I am considered to be the founder of the U.S. Navy. When captured by the British, I uttered the immortal words- "I have not yet begun to fight!"

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Valley Forge

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place where Washington and his soldiers spent a harsh winter

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France

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We sent our navy to blockade the English and troops and supplies to help the Patriots win the war after they convinced us they could win at the battle of Saratoga.

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French and Indian War

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war fought by French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in 1763.

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Proclamation of 1763

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prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, colonists weren't allowed to settle or buy land there, this led to outrage in the 13 colonies

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Stamp Act

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An act passed by the British parliment in 1765 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents

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Boston Massacre

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The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans, including Crispus Attucks

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Intolerable Acts

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response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774 to punish Massachusetts including shutting down Boston port

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no taxation without representation

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phrase used by colonists to protest the taxes placed on them without their agreement