Honors Us History- Unit 2

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French & Indian War

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The war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756 the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War

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Boston Tea Party

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A violent demonstration in 1773 by American colonists before the American Revolution. Colonists boarded vessels in Boston harbor and threw the cargoes of tea into the water in protest at the imposition of a tax on tea by the British Parliament, in which the colonists had no representation

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Coercive Acts

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Five laws passed by the british parliament:
-Boston Port Act: Closed Boston port until the East India Company had been repaid
-Massachusetts Government Act: the government of Massachusetts was now under control of the British government.
-Administration of Justice Act: allowed the governor to move trials of accused royal officials to another colony
-Quartering Act: A law that allowed British solders to stay in American homes
-Quebec Act: Act of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec

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Common Sense

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the book presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule.

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Sir Henry Clinton

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British Commander-in-Cheif in North America for the American War of Independence

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Benedict Arnold

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United States general and traitor in the American Revolution; in 1780 his plan to surrender West Point to the British was foiled.

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Battle of Yorktown

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The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.

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Stono rebellion

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A slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.

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Boston Massacre

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An incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War.

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Proclamation Line of 1763

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England prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. It is issued after the French and Indian War in an attempt to ease the fears of the Native Americans.

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Albany Plan

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The plan was called by order of the British government for the purpose of conciliating the Iroquois and securing their support in the war against France, was more notable for the plans that it made than for its actual accomplishments

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Declaration of Independence

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A document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed on July 4, 1776, by the congressional representatives of the Thirteen Colonies, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams

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Articles of Confederation

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A written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens

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George Washington

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1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution

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Stamp Act Congress

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A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British Colonies in North America

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First Continental Congress

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The meeting of representatives from the colonies in 1774 to plan a response to the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. The meeting was held in Philadelphia, and represents a key step in uniting the separate colonies to oppose British rule.

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Olive Branch Petition

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The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in an attempt to avoid a full-blown war with Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.

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Lexington and Concord

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The first battle of the American Revolution

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Nathaniel Greene

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A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

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Sons of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American Patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies.

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Quartering Act

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A law passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that required American colonists to allow British soldiers to stay in their homes.

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Pontiac's Rebellion

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a rebellion to drive out the British done by, Native American tribes who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.

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Circular Letters

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The Circular Letter was an early Interlingua newsletter published from 1954 to 1965.

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Thomas Jefferson

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3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it

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John Hancock

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American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress; was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Fort Necessity

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The Battle of Fort Necessity occurred on July 3, 1754 and was an early battle of the French and Indian War.

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John Adams

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2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)

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Militia

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The entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service

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Patriots

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Colonists who supported American independence from Britain.

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Valley Forge

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The site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778 in the American Revolutionary War.

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Tories

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An American who favored the British side during the American Revolution

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women

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Sugar Act

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A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.

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"continentals"

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A piece of paper currency used at the time of the American Revolution

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Crispus Attucks

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Crispus Attucks was killed in the Boston Massacre in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

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writs of assistance

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Allowed British customs agents looking for smuggled goods to enter colonial homes and warehouses without evidence or specific court orders.

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"virtual representation"

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Colonists in the Thirteen Colonies rejected legislation imposed upon them by the British Parliament because the colonies were not represented in Parliament.

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Abigail Adams

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The wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth.

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Samuel Adams

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American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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The first important battle of the American War of Independence, the british won.

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Lord Cornwallis

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He styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator

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William Howe

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An American architect. Born in Spencer Massachusetts, He patented the Howe Truss design for covered bridges in 1840.

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Benjamin Rush

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Physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Tea Act

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An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price

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Paul Revere

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American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming

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Gaspee incident

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The Gaspée Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspée, a British revenue schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations

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Hessians

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A nickname the colonists gave the hired German soldiers, or mercenaries, used by the British in the American Revolution.