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13 Cards in this Set
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Who is the author of Common sense`
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Thomas Paine
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Great Compromise
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plan at tthe Constitutional Convention that settled the difference between large and small states
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three-fifths compromise
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agreement at the constitutional convention that three-fifths of the slaves in any states be counted in its population
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Bill Of rights
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list of freedoms that the government promiuses to protect
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who wrote the Decleration of Independance
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Thomas Jefferson
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Stamp Act
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law that place new duties on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice
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Tea Act
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law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists
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Townshend Acts
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taxed goods such as glass paper paint lead and tea
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Intolerable Acts
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series of laws passed to punish boston for the Tea Party
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Treaty of Paris
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agreement between Britain and France that ended the French and Indian war
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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first major battle of the war( Revolution)
proved that the americans could fight bravely |
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Battle of Saratoga
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turning point in the war
1777, the first major American Victory in the Revolution |
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
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in 1775, conflicts between Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the Revolutionary War,
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