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Tea Act |
gave the British East India Company the exclusive right to sell to the American colonies; hoped to save the company from bankruptcy;actually lowered the price of the price of tea but Americans believed it was trick to get the to accept the tax so they refused to allow ships to unload tea in America |
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Thomas Hutchinson |
declared that all ships coming to Boston must be unloaded |
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Boston Tea Party |
in December, 1773 , a group of Americans dressed up like Indians, went on board British ships in Boston Harbor, and dumped their cargo of tea overboard |
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Coercive Acts |
passed to punish Boston; American's called them Intolerable Acts; most famous was the Boston Port Act |
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Boston Port Act |
closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for |
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Quebec Act |
moved the southern boundary of Canada down to the Ohio River; took away land claimed by Mass., Conn., and Virginia |
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Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
written by 1st Continental Congress in May, 1774, in Philadelphia; listed all of their problem,s with parliament and the king and agreed to boycott British goods completely and a;so agreed to meet again a year later if nothing had changed |
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General Thomas Gage |
learned that the Americans were hiding weapons at Concord, Mass; led 700 troops out of Boston with orders to capture these supplies and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock |
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Revere, Dawes, Prescott |
rode out of Boston to warn the colonists that the British were on their way to Concord |
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Describe what happened at Lexington |
Gage's men were met by about 70 minute men, shots were fired, and 8 Americans were killed and 10 were wounded; this marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War; the British marched on but only captured part of Concord's supplies |
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2nd Continental Congress |
met in May, 1775, at Philadelphia and appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army |
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Ethan Allen |
leader of The green Mountain Boys from Vermont; captured Crown Point and Ft. Ticonderoga in New York with Benedict Arnold; they took a large amount of gunpowder and some artillery |
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Battle of Bunker Hill |
took place outside of Boston; the bloodiest battle of the Revolutionary War; Gage forced the Continental Army out of Boston but lost 40% of his men |
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Thomas Paine |
Published Common Sense in which he criticized the king and called for independence |
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Richard H. Lee |
introduced a resolution in congress calling for independence in June 1776 |
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Committee of Five |
set up to write the Declaration of Independence; was made up of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman; Jefferson did most the of the work; the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776 |
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Loyalists and Tories |
Americans that did not support independence; faced persecution and loss of property, so many fled to other parts to other parts of the British empire |
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British advantages in the Revolutionary War |
-best navy in the world -had a professional army -had more money and better credit -able to hire mercenaries |
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British disadvantages in the war |
-fighting on unfamiliar land -transportation problems -the British people resented paying higher taxes |
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Trenton and Princeton |
Washington's army attacked Trenton on Christmas Night, 1776, and defeated a Hessian stronghold; soon afterward defeated Princeton; encouraged the Americans to keep fighting |
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John Burgoyne |
British general that began moving a large army from Canada south to New York City in June, 1777 |
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Horatio Gates |
surrounded Burgoyne's army at Saratoga, NY and forced him to surrender; Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War because it convinced foreign countries, especially France, that could win so they sent aid |
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George Rogers Clark |
won major victories in Kaskaskia, Cohokia, and Vincennes in Indiana and Illinois |
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General Charles Cornwallis |
surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia and basically ended the Revolutionary War |
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Franklin, Adams, and Jay |
3 peace commissioners sent to Paris to work on a peace treaty and the result was the Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
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Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
major terms included: 1) America's independence was recognized; 2) British troops were to be removed from America; 3) debts owed to Britain were to be paid; 4) America's boundaries were set with the Atlantic to the east, Mississippi River to the west, Great Lakes to the north, and Florida to the south |
