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