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23 Cards in this Set
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Olive Branch Petition
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adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in an attempt to avoid a full-blown war with Great Britain. petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. petition was rejected, and in August 1775 the colonies were formally declared in rebellion by the Proclamation of Rebellion
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Prohibitory Act
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Prohibitory Act 1775 was passed as a measure of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in her American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War. declared and provided for a naval blockade against American ports.
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common sense
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written by Thomas Paine. first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.
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Declaration of Independence
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statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
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Thomas Jefferson
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third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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George Mason
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American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Mason was a leader of those who pressed for the addition of explicit States rights and individual rights to the U.S. Constitution
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Continental Congress
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Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations.
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Articles of confederation
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first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. Articles were in use beginning in 1777. last draft of the Articles was written in the summer of 1777
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George Washington
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dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775–1797, leading the American victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army, unanimous choice to serve as the first President of the United States (1789–1797),
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Bunker Hill
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took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered a large amount of losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers.
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General Thomas Gage
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a British general, best known for his role in the early days of the American War of Independence. From 1763 to 1775 he served as commander in chief of the British forces in North America, overseeing the British response to the 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion. 1774 he was also appointed the military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,
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Hessians
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soldiers were eighteenth-century German regiments hired through their rulers by the British Empire. they are most widely associated with combat operations in the American Revolutionary War.
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Lord Cornwallis
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a British Army officer and colonial administrator. best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America
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Nathaniel Greene
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major general of the continental army in the american revolution
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John Adams
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American statesman, diplomat and political theorist.was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). A conservative Federalist, he was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States
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John Jay
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an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789 - 95)Jay served as the President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779. leader of the new Federalist Party, the Governor of New York State from 1795 to 1801, and he became the state's leading opponent of slavery
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Treaty of paris 1783
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signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 ormally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule.
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women during war time
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women exercised their support for the colonial forces from their homes, others confronted the harsh realities of the battlefronts. Some women had to use weapons and courage to defend their homes from British plunderers.
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abigail adams
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the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States. She was the first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States.
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civic virtue
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cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. civic virtue have been a major concern of political philosophy.
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Ordinance of 1784
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called for the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states. did not define the mechanism by which the land would become states, or how the territories would be governed or settled before they became states. were intended to address these political needs.
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Northwest Ordinance
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an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
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Shays Rebellion
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an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. ebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led the rebels, known as "Shaysites" or "Regulators". Most of Shays' compatriots were poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes, Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the government.
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