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47 Cards in this Set
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Robert Walpole
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The first prime minister of Britain who served during the reign of King George1 and George 2.
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Privy Council
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A body that advises the head of state of a nation of executive authority.
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Benjamin Franklin
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New France
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Paltry Wages
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Albany Plan
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French Indian War
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Louis XIV
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Missionary Zeal
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Father Jacques Marquette
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Rene Robert Cavalier
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The Iroquois Confederacy
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King Williams War
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Fort Necessity
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William Pitt
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Siege of Quebec
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Peace of Paris 1763
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Proclamation of 1763
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Greenville Ministry
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Sugar Act
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Currency Act
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Paxton Boys
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Regulatory Movement
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Stamp Act
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Virginia Resolves
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Sons Of Liberty
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A political group made up of American patriots designed to incite change of British rule in the American colonies. Attacked through words and deeds
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The Tory’s
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One of the prominent political parties in Great Britain who advocate monarchism, have a High Church Anglican or Recusant Catholic religious heritage, and are opposed to the radical liberalism of the Whig faction.
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Mutiny Act
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An act passed by Parliament for governing the British Army in response to the mutiny of a large portion of the army which stayed loyal to the Stuarts upon William III taking the crown of England.
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Quartering Act
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Laws forcing colonists to ensure British soldiers had adequate housing and provisions.
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Townshend Act
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A series of acts passed beginning in 1767 to raise revenue in the colonies to pay governors and judges so that they be independent of colonial control, create an effective way of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, punish New York for refuting the 1765 Quartering Act, and to prove that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.
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Navigation Act
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Laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies.
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Boston Massacre
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770.
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Samuel Adams
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He was a statesman, political philosopher, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and an architect in the principles of American republicanism
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Loyalists
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American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men by the Patriots who supported the revolution.
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Patriots
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Gaspee Incident
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Tea Act
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Daughters of Liberty
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Boston Tea Party
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Coercive Acts
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First Continental Congress
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John Adams
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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General Thomas Gage
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Paul Revere
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John Dickinson Letters to a farmer
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The Massachusetts Circular
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