Chapter 5

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Trenton

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The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.

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Saratoga

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(1777); the British under Burgoyne were defeated. Turning Point in the war.

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Charleston

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Camden

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The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War

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Yorktown

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1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Lord Cornwallis.

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Valley Forge

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Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778

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General Cornwallis

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best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.

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General Burgoyne

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a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762.

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General Howe

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was a British army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence

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General Washington

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Stamp Act

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an act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents

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Sugar Act

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this law of 1764 reduced the tax imposed by the Molasses Act of 1733, but was a measure to increase enforcement of the duty. It included many other imported goods, which affected the colonial economy by straining the American export market and reducing the amount of cash in colonial pockets

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Virginia Resolves

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The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act of 1765.

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Earl of Bute

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Marquess of the County of Bute, shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute

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Lord Rockingham

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The title Marquess of Rockingham in the peerage of Great Britain was created for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 6th Baron Rockingham, in 1746

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William Pitt

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Charles Townshend

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was a British politician

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Quartering Act

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applied to all the colonies in 1765, this law was put in place to force colonial legislatures to provide housing for British troops in America- it allowed soldiers to take up "quarters" in buildings that did not belong to the British military.

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Viscount Hillsborough

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known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era

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Thomas Hutchinson

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was the British royal governor of colonial Massachusetts from 1771 to 1774 and a prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolution