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20 Cards in this Set
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Immigrant |
A person from one country who comes into another country to live |
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Frontier |
Newly settled area on the edge of the unsettled area or wilderness |
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Assembly |
A group of representatives who gather to make laws |
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Militia |
Body of armed citizens prepare for military service at any time |
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Ally |
A nation that has promised to help another nation in war time |
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Boycott |
Organize campaign in which people refused to have any dealings with a particular group in order to force a change of policy |
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Repeal |
To cancel or do away with |
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Merchant |
Businessman involved in trade with foreign countries |
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Apothecary |
Doctors and pharmacist who treated patients and prescribed and made medicines |
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Parliament |
The highest governing body in Britain |
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French and Indian war
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War fought to gain control over the Ohio river valley |
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The sons of liberty |
Group of colonist who protested in boycotted taxes |
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Committee of correspondence |
Create to spread the news about the British actions throughout the colonies |
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Intolerable acts |
Laws passed by parliament to punish the whole colony of Massachusetts |
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Crispus Attucks |
First black American to die for the calls of American liberty in the Boston massacre |
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King George III |
King of Britain at the time of the American revolution |
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Patrick Henry |
Colonist who protest at the stamp act from Virginia. He made a speech about colonist liberty being taken away because of the stamp act and it was put in the paper |
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Paul Revere |
1. Made a copper engraving that showed soldiers firing on the innocent citizens during the Boston massacre. 2.Also rode to worn that the red cats were marching toward the people of Lexington and Concord |
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Sam Adams |
Organize the sons of liberty and formed the committee of correspondence |
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George Washington |
Commander of the continental army |
