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13 Cards in this Set
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Before the French and Indian War was over, Britain had a new king.
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George III
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required that newspapers, almanacs, marriage certificates, and other documents purchased by the colonists have special stamps or seal affixed to them
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Stamp Act
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The British Government felt forced to drop the Stamp Act
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In 1766
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Those who wanted America to be free from Britain's heavy control soon became known as
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Patriots
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Britian kept a small tax on tea.
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Boston Massacre
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Mohawk Indians boarded the ships, smashed open over 300 chests of tea with their tomahawks, and dumped the tea in water
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The Boston Tea Party
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Another act of Parliament that horrified the colonists
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The Quebec Act
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on Sept.1774 about 50 men from the colonies met in Phili. They put into writting a request that thier rights as an Englishmen be respected, and they agreed not to buy goods made in Great Britian.
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First Continental Congress
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they said they could be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
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minutemen
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one of the black minuteman
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Lemuel Haynes
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said the phrase give me liberty or deaf!
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Patrick Henry
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rode through the night to warm the minutemen
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Paul Revere
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no one knows who fired the first shot
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American War of Independence
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