Study Guide Unit 2

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Stamp Act

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taxing almost all printed materials, papers, wills, mortgages, etc.

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Boston Tea Party

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was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston on December 16, 1783.

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Olive Branch Petition

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A letter to king George III from members of the 2nd continental congress, the last attempt bye the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.

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Natural Rights

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Rights that people supposedly have under natural law.

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Battle of Saratoga

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a major battle of the revolutionary war, fought in 1777 in New York

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Marquis De Lafayette

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French soldier who served under GeorgeWashington in the American Revolution.

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Lexington and Concord

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The first battle of the revolutionary war,fought in Massachusetts, British soldiers had moved toward Lextington andconcord to seize the colonists military supplies and arrest revolutionary.

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Boston Massacre

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A riot in Boston, arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward the British troops quartered in the city, which troops fired a shoot in the crowd and killed several people.

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2nd Continental Congress

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a convention of delegates from the thirteencolonies, that soon after warfare declared the America revolutionary war hadbegun.

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Enlightenment

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a European intellectual movement of the late17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather thantradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such asDescartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe,Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

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Social Contract

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An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits

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Yorktown

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The last battle of the revolutionary war fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia

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George Washington

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the first president of united states, and the commanding general of the victorious american army in the revolutionary war.

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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The first great battle of the revolutionary war, the british drove the Americans from the fort at breed's hill to bunker hill.

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!st Continental Congress

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was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies(Georgia)

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Sons of Liberty

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an organization of American colonists that wascreated in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed toprotect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the Britishgovernment.

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Dec. of Independence

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the formal statement written by Thomas Jeffersondeclaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain

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John Locke

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A seventeenth-century English philosopher. Lockeargued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas alreadyin their minds.

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Valley Forge

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A valley in eastern Pennsylvania thatserved as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of theRevolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army, had beenforced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold and fromlack of supplies.

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Patriot

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a person who vigorously supports their country and its prepared to defend it against enemies of detractors

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Articles of Confederation

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An agreement among the thirteen original states,approved in 1781, that provided a loose federal government before the presentConstitution went into effect in 1789.

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Sugar Act

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a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so asto give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on thecolonial market.

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Salutary Neglect

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an American history term that refers to theseventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strictenforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient toEngland.

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Thomas Jefferson

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3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)

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Intolerable Acts

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the American Patriots' term for a series ofpunitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Teaparty. Meant to punish the colonists after the boston tea party.

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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The treaty eliminated French power in NorthAmerica, eliminating them almost completely except for some offshore islands.Most of the territory went to the British Empire

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Loyalist

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a person who remains loyal to the establishedruler or government, especially in the face of a revolt.