Level 5 History - 3Rd Block

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April 19, 1775

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The date the War for Independence began.

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The first meeting of the group of representatives from the the colonies.

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Continental Congress

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Groups started for the purpose of keeping contact between colonies.

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Committees of Correspondence

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The British general who surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.

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Lord Cornwallis

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Quaker

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Members of a religious group who believed people should be free to worship as they pleased.

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July 4, 1776

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The date the Declaration of Independence was passed by Congress.

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Intolerable Acts

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Punishment inflicted upon the people of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party.

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The Commander in Chief of the Continental army.

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George Washington

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Roger Williams

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Puritan minister who was persecuted for holding different beliefs than most Puritans.

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plantation

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A large farm on which one main crop is grown.

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Rhode Island

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The colony started by Roger Williams where people had religious freedom.

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spiritual

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religious song

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indigo

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A plant from which blue dye is made.

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The chief city of the Massachussetts Bay Colony

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Boston

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The document stating the reasons the American colonies wanted to be free of British control

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Declaration of Independence

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The first of the 13 colonies to be settled.

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Virginia

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Middle Colonies

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New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

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Colony taken from the Dutch by the king of England's brother.

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New York

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Founded by James Ogelthorpe and debtors for the purpose of protecting the Northern colonies from Spain. Named in honor of King George.

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Georgia

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Massachussetts Bay Colony

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The colony started by the Puritans. Its chief cith wad Boston.

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naval stores

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Supplies made from pine trees and sent to England to be used by the English Navy.

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The colony founded by Cecilius Calvert as a refuge for Catholics.

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Maryland

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organized military force

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militia

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Rule or government by the people.

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democracy

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Was purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn and eventually became a separate colony from Pennsylvania.

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Delaware

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Those who supported the fight for independence from Britian.

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Patriots

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apprentice

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Student of a master craftworker for the purpose of learning that trade.

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Connecticut & New Hampshire

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Founded by people from the Masachussetts bay Colony where fishing, shipping, and farming were important ways to make a living.

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These two colonies began as one colony and were named in honor of King Charles II.

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North & South Carolina

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The introduction to the Declaration of Independence telling what rights people should have.

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Preamble

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town meeting

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A meeting of the inhabitants of a town to discuss or vote on town affairs.

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The British lawmaking body.

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Parliament

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debt

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Something that is owed, usually money.

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The last of the original 13 colonies to be settled.

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Georgia

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Colony founded by William Penn and other Quakers. Philadelphia is its largest city.

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Pennsylvania

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independence

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Freedom from great Britian's rule

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The 7 year war in which the colonies ans Britian fought against the French and the Indians.

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The French and Indian War

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The term for farmers and other citizens who were ready to fight "with a minute's warning."

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Minutemen

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The 5 southern colonies

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Maryland,Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

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The large area of land given to George Carteret and John Berkeley by the Duke of York.

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New Jersey

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The protest against British taxes which resulted in 300 chests of tea being thrown into the Boston Harbor.

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Boston Tea Party

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A killing of many people who cannot defend themselves very well.

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massacre

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Puritan

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A member of a religious group who did not want to leave the Church of England, but to purify it.

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Jamestown was founded in this colony.

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Virginia

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Located at the center of most New England towns and owned by all the people. Animals were put to graze here.

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common

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Sent out of Massachussetts Bay Colony for her religious beliefs.

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Anne Hutchinson

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Middle Passage

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The trip from Africa to America on a slave ship.

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Changes one type of government or way of thinking and replaces it with another.

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revolution

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People who lived in the colonies, but supported Britian and King George III

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Loyalists

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German soldiers hired to fight for the British

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Hessians

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Privately owned ships given permission by Congress to attack the British in the name of the United States government

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privateers