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30 Cards in this Set
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First Continental Congress
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an assemby of delegates in Philidelphia to protest the Intolerable Acts
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The Battle of Saratoga
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The turning point of the war, when France entered on the side of the colonists
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Alexandria
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Located on the Potomac River
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The French and Indian War
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A war between England and France for land and fur trading.
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North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
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Virginia's bordering states
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Patrick Henry
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" Give me liberty, or give me death!"
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Cherokee Indians
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The Iroquoian language group living in Southwestern Virginia
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Williamsburg
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Located on the James River
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Richmond
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A Fall LIne city on the James River
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Algonquian Language
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The language spoken by the Powhatan Indians of the Coastal Plain.
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debt
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Buying a good or service and paying for it later.
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How the Indians adapted to their environment
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Wearing animal skins, building homes of saplings
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Captain John Smith
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Provided leadership to the Jamestown colony and worked with the Powhatans to provide food for the colonists
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Why King James 1 issued the first Virginia Charter
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To increase England's wealth and power
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House of Burgesses
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The first elected legeslative body in America
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How to grow corn and tobacco
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What the Powhatan Indians taught the colonists to grow
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Slave labor
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Used to meet the demands for tobacco
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Natural resources of the Coastal Plain
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rich soil, temperate climate
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tobacco
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cash crop
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Better living conditions
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Why the capital was moved to Williamsburg
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord
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Second Continental Congress
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met in Philidelphia in 1775 voting for independence, signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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Yorktown, Virginia
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Where General Cornwallis surrended to General Washington
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James Armistead Lafayette
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An African American spy for the colonies
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Thomas Jefferson
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wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Women during the war
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farmed and supported the troops
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Promise of freedom
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Why some slaves fought for the British
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Declaration of Independence
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It gave reasons why Americans should become independent. It was signed on July 4, 1776, by delegates of the Second Continental Convention.
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The Eastern Shore
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One of Virginia's peninsulas, bordered by the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Primary Document
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A journal or newspaper article
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