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23 Cards in this Set
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Olive Branch Petition
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What: adopted by the Second Continental Congress
When:July 8, 1775 Significance: attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown |
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Prohibitory Act
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What:all Americans to be outlaws beyond the king’s protection at the very moment when
When: 1775 Significance: trade and commerce is and be prohibited |
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Common Sense
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What: common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
When:1776 Significance: challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy |
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Declaration Of Independence
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What:Declare Independence from Great Britain
When:July 4, 1776 Significance:announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, |
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Thomas Jefferson
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Who: Third president of United States
When:April 13,1745-July 4,1826 Significance: principle author of the Declaration of Independence |
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George Mason
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Who:American patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
When:December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792 Significance:pressed individual rights to constitution |
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Continental Congress
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What:convention of Delegates of thirteen colonies
When:1774 to 1789 Significance:government body of U.S during American Revolution |
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Articles of Confederation
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what:First constitution of U.S America
when:1777 Significance: specified how the national government was to operate. |
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George Washington
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Who:the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America
When:February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799 Significance: he developed the forms and rituals of government that have been used ever since, and built a strong, well-financed national government that avoided war, suppressed rebellion and won acceptance among Americans of all types. |
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Bunker Hills
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What:British troops of the Boston garrison against troops of the American Continental Army
When:1775 Significance: his let the British know that the Americans wouldn't be easy to beat. It also told the British that it wasn't going to be cheap either. |
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General Thomas Gage
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Who:British general
When:1720 Significance: role in the early days of the American War of Independence. |
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Hessian
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Who: soldiers
When:eighteenth-century Significance: associated with combat operations in the American Revolutionary War. |
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Lord Cornwallis
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Who:British General and colonial governor
When:Dec. 31, 1738 Significance: his failure at Yorktown |
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Nathanael Greene
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Who:a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.
When:August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786 Significance: he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer |
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John Adams
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Who:American statesman, diplomat and political theorist
When:October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826 Significance: one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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John Jay
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Who:American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States
When:December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829 Significance: President of the Continental Congress |
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Treaty of Paris 1783
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What:help end the American revolution
When:signed on September 3, 1783 Significance: formally 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 the War Time
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Abigail Adams
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who:the wife of John Adams
when:November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818 Significance:many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses |
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Civic Virtue
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Ordinance of 1784
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what:separate states
when:enacted April 23, 1784 Significance:the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states |
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North West Ordinance
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what:an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States
when:August 7, 1789 Significance:the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States |
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Shays Rebellion
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what:an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts
when:1786 to 1787 Significance: Poor farmers seeking debt relief through the issuance of paper currency and lower taxes |
