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33 Cards in this Set
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Daniel Boone
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Born October 22, 1734 in Berks county, Pennsylvania colony
Quaker Good shot Moves to Yadkin valley Wagoner at braddocks road Marries Rebecca Bryan 200 mile road Builds boonesBurrough Leaves boonesBurrough because the men didnt trust him Died December 26, 1820 |
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Acts
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Sugar act- 1764
Currency act- 1764 Stamp act- 1765 quartering act -1765 Townsend act 1767 Coercion acts "intolerable acts" Result of Boston tea party Closed Boston's harbors till they paid debt Tell us how to do everything |
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James Otis
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Got revolution started in bars
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Sam Adams
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Most dangerous man
Not money politics Starts sons of liberty Starts revolution |
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Sons of liberty
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Gentle man class
Cruel |
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John Hancock
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Shallow in brains and deep in pockets
2nd in command |
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Boston massacre march 5 , 1770
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Dramatized
Mobs of people |
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John Adams
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Thought soldiers from Boston massacre would get hanged so he defended them in court
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Boston tea party
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Must buy tea from east India tea
Dress up as Mohawks Dump 342 chests |
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1st continental congress
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Plan for war
Minute men are good |
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Midnight ride
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April 8, 1775
Paul revere rode brown beauty the fastest horse |
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Lexington and concord
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Shot heard round the world
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Paul revere
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Silver smith
Makes false teeth Had 16 kids Joins sons of liberty Spies on British "1 if by land 2 if by sea" |
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Ethan Allen
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From Vermont
Had 83 green mountain boys Lake Champlain ft. Ticonderoga " surrender in the name of god" |
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2nd continental congress
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Olive branch petition
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Battle of bunker/breeds hill
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Dug trench 180 ft long
8 ft wide 6 ft deep In cover of night Turn brittish back 3 times |
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General George Washington
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Picked June 17, 1775
John Adams nominated him Born February 22, 1732 Get small pox at young age and survives George inherits mount Vernon Needs to marry well Marries Martha Custer Turned heads Had spies |
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House of Hanover
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Queen Anne lives longer than 17 kids no more house of Tudor
King George 1 from Germany can't speak English King George 2 dies on toilet Kim George 3 actually cares farmer king becomes insane |
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Thomas Paine
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Big thinker
Wrote common sense and the crisis Changed people's thinking |
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People in war
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Mohawks, cayugas, senacas & nondegas (brittish)
Oheidas, tuscaroras (us) Africans (both) 5,000 fought & won freedom Brittish bring in hessians King brings in 200,000 German soldiers 30,000 stay If Germans joined us they got land |
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David bushnell
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The turtle
First submarine |
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Battle of Trenton
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Christmas Eve attack on hessians
Cross Delaware John honey man spied on hessians for Washington Colonel johann rall- hessians |
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Benedict Arnold
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January 14, 1741
Patriot Goes to ft. Ticonderoga Wants to take Canada Attacks Quebec on New Year's Eve |
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Daniel Morgan
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Daniel boones cousin
2nd in command Survives 500 lashes Charged cannon |
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Battle of Saratoga
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Heratio gates in command
Send Benedict Arnold to tent Arnold leaves and wins battle Heratio takes Credit After this battle the French come |
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Peggy shippen
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Marries Benedict Arnold
Brittish spy Gets Benedict to be a traitor |
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Spies
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Not cool women make best spies
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Nathan hale
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Most famous spy
Worst spy Didnt lie |
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Robert Townsend
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Code name: Sam culpepper jr.
Everyone thought he was a Tory |
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Thomas hickey
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Spy for brittish
Sent to kill Washington Becomes body guard Gets caught by house wife Gets hanged |
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Valley forge
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1777-1778
Men die from cold and starvation |
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Battle of Monmouth
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Last big battle
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Yorktown
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Ends
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