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10 Cards in this Set
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Olive Branch Petition
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-adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775
-petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain |
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Prohibitory Act
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closed the colonies to all overseas trade and made concessions to american demands except an offer to pardon repenant rebels.
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Common Sense
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its author was Thomas Paine
he wanted to turn the anger of americans away from the specific parliamentary measures they were resisting and toward what he considered the root of the problem- the English constitution itself. |
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Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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George Mason
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-"all men are created equal"
- helped movements of liberation and reform of many kinds in the united states and abroad |
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Continental Congress
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Articles of Confederation
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they did little more than confirm the weak.
decentralized system already in operation |
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George Washington
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Bunker Hill (Battle)
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the patriots suffered severe casualities in the battle of Bunker Hill o June 17, 1775 and were driven out of their position there. But they inflicted much greater losses on the enemy who suffered their heaviest causalities of the entire war at Bunker Hill
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