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38 Cards in this Set
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Boston radical, started Committees of Correspondence |
Samuel Adams |
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American commander at Ticonderoga and the invasion of Canada |
Benedict Arnold |
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commander-in-chief of American army |
George Washington |
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Prime Minister of Britain, Stamp Act |
George Grenville |
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author of Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Olive Branch Petition |
John Dickinson |
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Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain |
Charles Townshend |
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Prime Minister who gave East India Co. a monopoly on American tea sales |
Lord North |
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president of Second Continental Congress, large signer of Declaration of Independence |
John Hancock |
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colonial representative in London before the war |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Describe the Stamp Act. |
This act was passed in 1765. It required all legal documents and public papers, such as wills, playing cards, newspapers, and bills of sale, to be marked with a stamp purchased from the government. |
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Describe the Townshend Acts. |
This act was passed in 1767. They were designed to increase revenue and control. The most important put a tax on a large number of goods such as paint, lead, glass, paper, and tea that the colonizes imported from Britain. |
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Describe the Boston Massacre. |
On the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd decided to entertain themselves by throwing snowballs at a soldier guarding the Customs House. The soldier called for backup and the soldiers killed 5 people. |
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Describe the Boston Tea Party. |
On December 16, 1773, three tea ships were floating in the Boston harbor. Colonists disguised themselves as indians and snuck on the ships. They dumped the tea in the harbor. They were angry because they thought the British was going to trick them into paying taxes. |
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Describe The Intolerable Acts. |
This was London's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. The most important part of the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Port bill. It ordered the port of Boston to be blockaded until the tea was paid for. |
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Describe the Quebec Act. |
This act was not aimed for America, but the Americans thought it was. The law confirmed the rights of the French in Quebec to follow their own customs and protected the Catholic religion. The Americans hated Catholicism. |
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Describe the Battle of Bunker Hill. |
The British decided to attempt an attack on the protected Americans at the top of Bunker Hill. The Americans didn't bring enough gun powder, but they were determined to stay. They didn't shoot until they could see the whites of the British's eyes. British won the hill, but they lost a lot of men, so it was more of a American victory. |
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Describe the Colonial reaction to the Stamp Act. |
1. Stamp Act Congress 2. boycotts 3. mob action |
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British policy toward the Thirteen Colonies was based on the economic theory of |
mercantilism |
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The laws that were passed in the late 1600s, but rarely that restricted America to trade to the benefit of England were called the _________________ Acts. |
Navigation |
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The _________________ Act was passed when the Stamp Act was repealed and stated that Parliament could tax the colonies. |
Declaratory |
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The ______________ were secret societies opposed to British power that led mob action. |
Sons of Liberty |
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The ________________ Act required colonists to house and feed British troops. |
Quartering |
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The ______________ Act kept high taxes on sugar and rum and allowed violators to be tried in Admiralty Court. |
Sugar |
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The First Continental Congress met in response to the ____________ Acts. |
Intolerable |
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The Revolutionary War began at |
Lexington in 1775 |
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The key fort, with its cannon, that was captured on Lake Champlain was Fort |
Ticonderoga |
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_____________ was an influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that urged America to become independent. |
Common Sense |
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(True or False) Britain was deeply in debt after the Seven Years War. |
True |
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(True or False) The colonists carefully obeyed the trade laws before 1763. |
False |
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(True or False) The American invasion of Canada encouraged the French colonists to rebel against the British. |
False |
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(True or False) Congress voted for independence on July 4, 1776. |
False |
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(True or False) The king's decision to use German mercenaries to fight in America turned many Americans against the British. |
True |
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(True or False) The Olive Branch Petition was an offer of surrender by the American army after the defeat at Bunker Hill. |
false |
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(True or False) The American army was organized from militia units. |
True |
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(True or False) In 1733, Boston was the only city that refused to accept for sale the tea shipped under the new monopoly to the East India Compony. |
False |
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(True or False) Britain wanted the Americas to bear some of the cost of their own defense. |
True |
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(True or False) The colonies were always short of hard money because of the British laws. |
True |