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24 Cards in this Set
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Loyal Nine
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a group of merchants and craftsmen who had
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writs of assistance
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Sugar Act
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Introduced in 1764 by Prime Minister
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Committees of Correspondence
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Groups that communicated with those in other colonies to encourage opposition to the Sugar Act and Currency Act.
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Sons of Liberty
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Organizations formed by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and other radicals in response to the Stamp Act.
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Regulators
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groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies.
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Daughters of Liberty
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Women who spun and wove at home so as to not purchase British goods.
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Boston Massacre
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Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, March 5, 1770 in which 5 colonists were killed.
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Crispus Attucks
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A mixed Indian-African-white colonist who died in the Boston Massacre and was hailed as the first martyr of the American Revolution.
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"Wilkes and Liberty"
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A popular rallying cry in both the colonies and Britain in response to the expulsion of John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament.
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Boston Tea Party
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On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773, under which the British exported to the colonies millions of pounds of cheap but still taxes tea, thereby undercutting the price of smuggled tea and forcing payment of the tea duty.
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Quebec Act
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An act that extended the southern boundary of Quebec to the Ohio river and granted legal toleration to the Roman Catholic Church in Canada.
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Suffolk Resolves
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A series of resolutions passed by a convention of delegates in Mass. that urged Americans to refuse obedience to new laws, withhold taxes, and prepare for war.
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Committees of Safety
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Groups authorized by Congress to oversee its mandates and to take action against "enemies of American liberty," including businessmen who tried to profit from the sudden scarcity of goods.
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Lord Dunmore's proclamation
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An offer by the British governor and military commander in Virginia for freedom to any slave who escaped to his lines and bore arms for the king.
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Olive Branch Petition
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An offer to George III reaffirming American's loyalty to the crown and hoping for a "permanent reconciliation."
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Common sense
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A pamphlet that appeared in January 1776 that attacked the Constitution of England and the principles of hereditary rule and monarchial government.
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Declaration of Independence
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Document adopted on July 4, 1776, that made the break with Britain official; drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress, including principal writer Thomas Jefferson.
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"American Exceptionalism"
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The belief that the United States has a special mission to serve as a refuge from tyranny, a symbol of freedom, and a model for the rest of the world.
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The American Crisis
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An essay by Thomas Paine read by George Washington to his troops shortly before crossing the Delaware River.
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Valley forge
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the site where Washington's army camped during the frigid winter of 1777-1778
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Benedict Arnold
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A former commander under George Washington who defected and almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important fort at West Point on the Hudson River
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Treaty of Paris
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A treaty that won recognition of American independence, gained control of the entire region between Canada and Florida east of the Mississippi River, and the right of Americans to fish in Atlantic waters off of Canada.
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