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40 Cards in this Set
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Quartering Act |
soldiers can live in houses of citenzens and are waited on hand and foot |
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Boston Massacre |
5 people dead 6 injured |
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Boston Tea Party |
Sam Adams and others threw tea over boats into boston harbor |
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Battle of Lexington & Concord |
First battle of revolution |
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Second Continental Congress |
wrote olive branch petition |
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Olive Branch Petition |
asked for peace from king/trying to not fight |
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Causes of the American Revolution |
wanted independence hated taxes treated unfairly |
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Bunker Hill |
no more chances at peace |
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Burgoyne’s Plan |
to isolate New England |
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Battle of Long Island |
the patriots lost and the british gained control of New York |
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"Common Sense" |
Patition that inspired the colonists Thomas Paine |
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Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson appointed to draft |
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Valley Forge |
the army was decreased by disease, starvation, and hypothermia because the harsh winter |
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Battle of Trenton and Princton |
Washington crossed Delaware River/the american soldiers won both battles |
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Battle of Saratoga |
the americans got foreign help to win the battle |
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Battle of Yorktown |
to surrender to the patriots and head back to britain |
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Treaty of Paris (1783) |
The treaty of paris gave americans independence from the british. It was signed in France. |
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First Continental Congress Accomplishments |
succesfully boycotted British to have a Second Continental Congress |
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Committees of Correspondence |
shadow gov. on the eve of the american revolution |
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Sugar Act |
taxes on sugar and molsassis |
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Stamp Act |
paper product taxes |
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Townshend Acts |
imposed duties on glass, lead, tea, paper, and paints |
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Tea Act |
tax on tea |
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intolerable Acts |
punishment for Boston Tea party 1. 2. 3. 4. |
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Declaratory Act |
repealing of taxes but replaced with new ones |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
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Taxation without Representation |
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Strengths of Americans |
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Weaknesses of Americans |
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Strengths of British |
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Weaknesses of British |
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Washington's Leadership |
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Loyalists |
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British Strategy |
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American Strategy |
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Nathaniel Greene |
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Charles Cornwallis |
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Problem of Continental Currency |
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Inflation |
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Examples of Foreign Assistance |
France gave Americans money & supplies Germany gave British people & money |
