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48 Cards in this Set
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Said ... We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die |
George Washington |
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Said. . . The British are coming! The British are Coming! |
Paul Revere |
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Said. . . I have not yet begun to fight. |
John Paul Jones |
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Said . . .Give me liberty or give me death. |
Patrick Henry |
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Said. . .I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country |
Nathan Hale |
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Chosen to be the supreme commander of the American troops |
George Washington |
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Stitched the first American flag with stars and stripes |
Betsy Ross |
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Black patriot killed at the Boston Massacre |
Crispis Attucks |
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Famous American silversmith and patriot |
Paul Revere |
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president of the Second Continental Congress and first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
John Hancock |
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Famous American spy and was killed by the British |
Nathan Hale |
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Leader of the British Army and surrendered to George Washington |
General Cornwallis |
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He and his men captured Fort Ticonderoga |
Ethan Allen |
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Captured three forts on the frountier and secured the Northwest Territory |
Geroge Rogers Clark |
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The king of England during the time of the War for Independence |
King George III |
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American colonists who remained loyal to the kind of England |
Tories |
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Colonists who wanted independence from England |
Patriots |
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German soldiers hired by the king to fight the Americans |
The Hessians |
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men prepared to fight in a minutes notice |
Minutemen |
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Names for the British Soldiers |
Recoats or Lobsterbacks |
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Where the Hessians were defeated |
Trenton on Christmas |
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Where the first battle of the War for Independence started |
Lexington and Concord |
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The turning point for the War for Independence |
Saratoga |
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The Continental Army spent a hard winter here |
Valley Forge |
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Americans proved hart to beat at. .. . |
bunker hill |
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Where the British surrendered to the American Army |
Yorktown |
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a large area of saltwater smaller than an ocean and partly or completly enclosed by land |
sea |
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a part of a body of wter smaller than a sea and reaching into the land, generally with a wide opening |
bay |
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a part of an ocean or sea which reaches into the land, generally with a narrower opening than a bay |
gulf |
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an inland body of water (usually fres) |
lake |
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a natural flow of water emptying into another body of water |
river |
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the place where a river begins |
source |
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the place where the river flows into a larger body of water |
mouth |
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the land deposited at the mouth of a river |
delta |
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the direction from which a river flows |
upstream |
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the direction toward which a river flows |
downstream |
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a deep, narrow body of water connecting to larger bodies of water; also, the deepest part of a river or harbor |
channel |
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a narrow, man-made channel of water that joins other bodies of water |
canal |
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a land too dry or too code to grow many plants |
desert |
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a desert area made fertile by the presence of water |
oasis |
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a raised area of the earth's surface that rises somewhat abruptly and is larger than a hill |
mountain |
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a long row of mountains |
mountain range |
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a lowland between hills or mountains |
valley |
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the level of the ocean waters; used as a starting point to measure the height or depth of a location on earth |
sea level |
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elevation; height above sea level |
altitude |
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special stamps were to be sold by the British government to the American Colonists. The law said that all newspapers, marriage certificates, almanacs, and other documents bought by a colonists had to have a seal or stamp placed on them (unfair tax law that angered the colonists) |
the stamp act |
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document which stated the reasons why American colonists wanted freedom from English rule |
Declaration of Independence |
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a protest by American colonists who dumped over 300 chests of Britsh tea into Boston Harbor |
Boston Tea Party |
