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30 Cards in this Set
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______ __________ commander and cheif of the continental Army(he was appointed)
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George Washington
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______ _________ was a member of the second Continental congress he used the ideas of John Locke to support independence.
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Thomas Jefferson
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________ ________ was a member of Congress he invented a lot of things and discovered a lot of things helped with the Dec. of Ind.
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Benjamin Franklin
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______ _____ published a pamplet called "Common Sense".It called for independence from Great Britain.
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Thomas Paine
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____ _____ wrote ideas about what government should be like. His ideas were used by Thomas Jefferson.
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John Locke
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rights are given to man by ____
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god
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governments are created to protect ______
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rights
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power is given to government by the people who create the _______
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government
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Jefferson used the ideas of _________ but went further then Locke when he added it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a New government
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John Locke
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____ __ __________ refused to pass laws for public good
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List of Grievances
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list of grievances forbade governors to pass laws until he (The king)___________ them (which he rarely did)
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approved
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The list of grievances refused to ______ colonists the right of representation in Parliment
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allow
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the list of grievances housed _______among the colonies in peacetime
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troops
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the list of grievances cut off trade between the colonies and other _________
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countries
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The list of grievances imposed taxes without _______
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consent
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taxes without consent made tea _______, but prevented colonial merchants from selling tea
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cheaper
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the colonists refused to allow the tea to be unloaded from the ships in ______ ______.
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Boston harbor
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The royal _______said that the ships would stay until they were unloaded.
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Governor
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Samuel Adams and ____ ______led the patriots as they threw the tea into the harbor.
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Paul Revere
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Parliament passed laws to punish the colonists in ______________.
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Massachusettes
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Boston Harbor was _______.
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closed
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no town meeting were _______.
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allowed
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British officials would be tried in England not in the _________.
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colonies
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British soldiers were housed in ________ homes
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colonial
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British were served ______
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first
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The petition aked the king for ____.
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help
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instead King George hired _______ German soldiers to fight the colonists.
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30,000
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the Congress approved and signed the ___________ __ ____________.
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Declaration of Independence
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The British was the _________ Navy in the world.
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strongest
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The british army was well trained and had a large _________.
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population
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