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12 Cards in this Set
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patriot |
a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. |
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Mercantilism |
is an economic theory that holds there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world |
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Continental Army |
was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. |
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militia |
a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. |
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intolerable acts |
the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. |
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representation without taxation |
A slogan of the Revolutionary War and the years before. |
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the stamp act |
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents |
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Quartering Act |
is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. |
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5 major cities on the east coast of the United States |
New York, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Georgia, Virginia |
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Seven Years' War |
is the name given to the final phase in the century-long struggle between France and Great Britain for dominance in North America and supremacy in the world |
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13 colonies |
Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island New York Connecticut New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virgina North Carolina South Carolina Georgia |
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France in the American Revolutionary War |
France recognized and allied itself with the United States in 1778, declared war on Great Britain, and sent its armies and navy to fight Britain while providing money and matériel to arm the new republic. French intervention made a decisive contribution to the U.S. victory in the war. |
