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51 Cards in this Set

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Neolin
An American Indian also known as the Delaware Prophet.
Pontiac's Rebellion
Ended when the Ottawa Indians failed to take Fort Detroit and Fort Pitt.
Proclamation
Barred settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Sugar Act of 1764
Imposed an import tax on foreign sugar, ,molasses, and several other items entering the colonies.
Duty
Import tax
Stamp Act of 1765
Placed a tax on printed materials of all kinds.
Non-importation Agreements
Contracts that made the signer promise not to buy or import British goods.
Sons of Liberty
The opposed the British rule in the colonies.
Samuel Adams
A leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty.
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting where diplomats could express their complaints.
Declaratory Act of 1766
Asserted the "full power and authority" of Parliament.
Townshend Acts of 1767
Place more taxes on more imported items.
Writs of Assistance
Unfair search warrants.
Quartering Act of 1765
Colonists were required to house, feed and supply British soldiers.
Boston Massacre
The slaughter of many civilian colonials at the hands of British soldiers.
John Adams
Samuel Adams' cousin. Later the second president of the United States.
King George III
Kind of England at this time.
Committee of Correspondence
Kept the rest of the colony and "The World" informed about the "infringements and violations" that Britain had made on colonial rights.
Tea Act of 1773
Excused the British East India Company from paying certain duties and permitted it to sell tea directly to American agents.
Intolerable Acts
Actually the British Coercive Acts.
Quebec Act
Extended Quebec's boundary south to the Ohio River.
First Continental Congress
Derpy Hooves says Muffins once and now she's deemed a muffin-loving pony.
Patriots
Colonists who supported independence.
Paul Revere
Famous Midnight Ride - Warned colonists of incoming British soldiers.
Minutemen
Members of the militia who promised to be ready at a minute's notice.
Second Continental Congress
Opened in Philadelphia on May 10.
George Washington
A famous general in the Revolutionary War. Later became first president.
William Howe
Commander of British troops.
Battle at Bunker Hill
One of the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
Olive Branch Petition
Stated the colonists' loyalty to the king and asked for his help in ending the conflict.
Patrick Henry
Powerful supporter of independence. "Give me liberty, or give me death."
Thomas Paine
Supporter of independence from Philadelphia.
Richard Henry Lee
Introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress saying that the colonies should be free and independent states.
Common Sense
A pamphlet made by Thomas Paine.
Declaration of Independence
A declaration that severed the ties between the colonies and Great Britain.
Thomas Jefferson
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Abigail Adams
The wife of John Adams.
Loyalists
Also known as Tories.
Thayendanegea
An important Mohawk chief known to colonists as Joseph Bryant.
Battle of Trenton
Colonists capture 918 Hessians, and kill 120.
Charles Cornwallis
The British field commander.
"Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne
Devised a plan: three separate British forces would converge at Albany, New York.
Battle of Saratoga
British are outnumbered and Burgoyne surrenders.
Bernado de Gálvez
Spain's governor of Louisiana.
Marquis do Lafayette
A french nobleman that came to America with Kalb.
George Rogers Clark
Led a group of 175 soldiers on a military expedition to secure the Illinois country.
Francis Marion
An officer in the Continental Army that had barely escaped capture at Camden.
Guerrilla Warfare
Wearing down the enemies in hit-and-run battles.
Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis surrenders his troops and the colonists win their independence.
Treaty of Paris
Signed on September 3, 1783. It granted the colonies independence.
The Game
You just lost it.