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26 Cards in this Set
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Writs of Assistance
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Blank search warrants or unrestricted rights to search for illegal goods
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Stamp Act
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A tax taxing legal papers in the colonies
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Sons of Liberty
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A secret citizens group in the 1760's to protest the Stamp Act.
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Declatory Act
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asserted Parliament's right to rule and tax the colonies
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Townshends Acts
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Placed tax on glass, paper, paint, and tea.
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Boston Massacre
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A clash between Bostonians and British troops where five colonists were killed.
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Committee of Correspondence
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ment to maintain communication among Massachusetts towns
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Boston Tea Party
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Protest against British trade policies. Patriots threw the tea cargo from a ship into the Boston Harbor.
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Intolerable Acts
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Laws made by parliament that severely restricted the rights of Massachusetts colonists.
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Frst Continental Congress
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A group of colonial delegates who voted to boycott British goods unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed
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Second Continental Congress
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Assembly of colonial delegates organized in 1775
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Olive Branch Petition
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It begged the king to stop the war and bring "a happy and permanent reconcilliation"
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mercenaries
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hired soldiers
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Resolutions
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A proposal put before Congress that needs a vote
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Declaration of Independence
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The document establishing the United States as a nation independent from Great Britian
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Battle of Saratoga
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October 1777 Gates defeated Burgoyne
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War Material
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Supplies, guns, and ammunition that make it possible to fight.
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Partisans
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A member of an unofficial military unit
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Battle of Yorktown
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Won by combined American and French troops, and it led to the surrender of the British
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Treaty of Paris
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Britian recognized the independence of the United States
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Republic
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A nation ruled by elected representatives of the people
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Articles of Confederation
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Established a national congress with limited powers
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Republicanism
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a belief among Americans after the revolution that a virtous life embracing simplicity, sacrifice, and freedom of conscience was needed for the nation to thrive
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Inflation
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prices rise because the value of money is dropping
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Northwest Ordinance
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It said that the Northwest Territory would be carved into five states, and a governor and judges be appointed by congress until statehood
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Northwest Territory
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The land northwest of the Ohio River set by the ordinance of 1785.
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