Exam Cards

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Suffolk Resolves

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A convention of delegates from Massachusetts town approved these resolutions that urged Americans to refuse obedience to new laws, withhold taxes, and prepare for war

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Members of the First Continental Congress

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John Adams, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, and Patrick Henry

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March 1775

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Henry concluded a speech urging a Virginia convention to begin military preparations with a legendary credo: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

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October 1774

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Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves and adopted the Continental Association, which called for a almost complete halt to trade with Great Britain and the West Indies.

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Committees of Safety

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Congress authorized them to oversee its mandates and to take action against "enemies of American Liberty," including businessmen who tried to profit from the sudden scarcity of goods.

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early 1775

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7000 men were serving on local committees throughout the colonies. They became training grounds were small farmers, city artisans, propertyless laborers, and others who had heretofore had little role in government discussed political issues and exercised political power.

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by 1775

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talk of liberty pervaded the colonies

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The First Continental Congress

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defended its actions by appealing to the "principles of the English constitution," the "liberties of free and natural born subjects within the realm of England," and the "immutable law of nature."

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May 1775

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War had broken out between British soldiers and armed citizens

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April 29,

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a force of British soldiers marched from Boston toward the nearby town of Concord seeking to seize arms being held there.

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Paul Revere

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"The British are coming! The British are coming!"

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Lexington and Concord

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Skirmishes between British soldiers and americans took place there.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The shot heard 'round the world."

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May 1775

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Ethan Allan and the Green Mountain Boys from Vermont, with militiamen from Connecticut led by benedict arnold, surrounded fort ticonderoga in New York and forced it to surrender.

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June 17, 1775

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the British dislodged colonial militiamen from Breeds Hill with many cassualties

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March 1776

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The american cannon arrived, and their entrenchment above the city made the British position in Boston untenable.

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Sir William Howe

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Abandoned boston, and then cut down the Liberty Tree

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Second Continental Congress

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authorized the raising of an army, printed money to pay for it, and appointed George Washington its commander.

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end of 1775

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the breach with Britain seemed irreparable

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Pride in membership in the British Empire

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Strong

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November 1775

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The earl of Dunmore offered freedom to any slave who escaped to his lines and bore arms for the king

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Joseph Galloway

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a pennsylvania leader and delegate of the Second Continental Congress who worked to devise a compromise between British and colonial positions who warned and predicted that independence would start a war between the North and South in America.

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1776

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America presented the unusual spectacle of colonists at war against the British empire, but was still pleading for their rights within it.

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Thomas Paine

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(1774) an english immigrant who was asked by Dr. Benjamin Rush to write a pamphlet supporting American independence (Common Sense)

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January 1776,

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Common Sense appeared

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Paine's ideas

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not original

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July 2, 1776

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Congress formally declared the united States an independent nation.

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Declaration of Independence

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Written by Thomas Jefferson, and included a list of grievances toward King George III, and has the famous preamble "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

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John Hancock

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The President of the Second Continental Congress, who was the first person to sign the constitution. His signature was so large that he said that the King himself could read it without glasses.

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since 1776

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numerous anti-colonial movements have modeled their own declarations of independence on America's.