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30 Cards in this Set
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Patriot |
Americans fighting the British |
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Proclamation Line of 1763 |
barred white settlers from taking up land in the fertile Ohio and Tennessee River valleys |
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Stamp Act |
levied a direct tax on the colonists and it affected most Americans directly |
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Sons of Liberty |
organisations of men who resisted new taxes and laws in the American colonies |
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Tea Act |
an act of parliament in 1773 that gave the East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the colonies |
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monopoly |
the control of a product or industry by one company |
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First Continental Congress |
a September 1774 meeting in Philadelphia in which delegates agreed to stop trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were replaced |
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Second Continental Congress |
a second meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia beginning in 1775; it wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 |
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SC Provincial Congress |
a new SC legislature, which met in January 1775 in defiance of royal authority |
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Loyalist |
a person who remained loyal to British in the American Revolution (Tories) |
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Treaty of Ninety Six |
a treaty in which many Upcountry Loyalists pledged to remain neutral in the Revolutionary War |
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Declaration of Independence |
the document proclaimed on July 4, 1776, by which the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britian |
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Constitution of 1778 |
a new, permanent state constitution that gave the governor little power and made sure the country was controlled by Lowcountry elite |
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Articles of Confederation |
a 1777 document, ratified in 1781, that was to act as a constitution for the national government; it formed a loose confederation in which states had greater powers than the central government |
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guerrilla warfare |
a strategy using small groups to surprise the enemy, inflict as much damage as possible in a short amount of time, then disappear |
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Battle of Camden |
a 1780 Revolutionary War battle that was a major defeat for the Continental Army |
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Battle of Kings Mountain |
a 1780 Revolutionary War that was a defeat for the British and the Loyalists forces and that weakened General Cornwallis's army |
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Battle of Cowpens |
a 1781 Revolutionary War battle that was a victory for Patriots |
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Battle of Eutaw Springs |
the last major Revolutionary War battle in SC |
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Commerce Compromise |
a compromise in the U.S. Constitution that allowed states to control commerce within their borders but let the national government take control of trade among the states with foreign nations |
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Three-fifths Compromise |
a compromise in the U.S. Constitution that allowed three fifths of the slave population to count for representative purposes |
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Great Compromise |
a compromise in the U.S. Constitution that created a bicameral Congress, with representation in the House of Representatives based on population and representation in the senate equal among the states |
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Federalist |
a supporter of a stronger federal government, who approved of the new U.S. Constitution |
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Antifederalists |
an opponent of a strong federal government, who opposed the new U.S. Constitution |
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Constitution of 1790 |
a state constitution that retained most governing power in the House of Representatives and most political power with wealthy property owners |
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Federalist Party |
an early American political party that advocated an active federal government and closer relations with the British |
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Democratic - Republican Party |
an early American political party that advocated a less active federal government and closer relationships with the French |
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cotton gin |
a simple machine that could remove cotton fiber from seed |
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Compromise of 1808 |
a compromise in the state legislature that allowed more equal representation for the Upcountry |
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suffrage |
the right to vote |
