Give Me Liberty! Ch 5

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Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context define "duty":

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tax

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During the 1760s

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backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as:

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What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

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that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"

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The British imposed a direct tax (also called an "internal tax") for the first time on colonists with the:

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Stamp Act.

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Which was not part of the Boston Tea Party?

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John Adams was sent to prison on December 17

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Following the Boston Tea Party

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Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston

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Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

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The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.

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When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government

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the British replied that they were represented by:

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Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

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the repression of Catholicism in the colonies

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What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

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France and Spain

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The Declaration of Independence:

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declared the United States independent of British rule.

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Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?

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The British public was ambivalent over a war to retain the colonies; the American public was united behind a war for independence.

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Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following EXCEPT:

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It was common sense that in the struggle for independence the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed.

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The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included:

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All of the above. (boycotts on the importation of British goods

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mass demonstrations in the port towns

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speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects.)

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The Daughters of Liberty were:

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women who spun and wove cloth at home so as not to purchase British goods during the 1768 Townshend Duties boycott.

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The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom

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a refuge from tyranny

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What did the Sugar Act of 1764 that so vexed the colonists do to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?

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it decreased it.

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Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:

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were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar

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Georg 3rd

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became king of England at age 22

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Pontiac

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Ottawa chief

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Patrick Henry

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Fiery partriot

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Charles Townshend

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Britain's chancellor of the exchequer

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Lord North

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Prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782

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John Hancock

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A wealthy Boston merchant

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Samuel Adams

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Boston patriot

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formed the committees of correspondence

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called the mass meeting immediately prior to the Bost Tea Party and was a delegate of the First and Second Continental Congress

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Paul Revere

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Boston silversmith and partriot

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John Adams

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Boston lawyer and political philosopher

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Thomas Paine

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English immigrant called of American independence in his widely read pamphlet

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Thomas Jefferson

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Virginia patriot and political philosopher was the primary author of the Declaration of Independance

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Lord Cornwallis

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a leading british general during the Revoltuionary War

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John Burgoyne

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led 6

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Horatio Gates

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american general was credited with the key victory at Saratoga in 1777

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Nathaniel Greene

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George Washington's most skill full and knowlegdable general

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Loyal Nine

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A group of merchants and craftsmen who had taken the lead in opposing the Stamp Act.

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''virtual representation''

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A doctrine which stated that the House of Commons represented all residents of the British empire

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writs of assistance

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One of the colonies’ main complaints against Britain

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Sugar Act

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Introduced in 1764 by Prime Minister George Grenville

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Committees of Correspondence

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Groups that communicated with those in other colonies to encourage opposition to the Sugar and Currency acts.

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Sons of Liberty

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Organizations formed by Samuel Adams

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Regulators

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Groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies.

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Boston Massacre

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Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob

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Crispus Attucks

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A mixed Indian-African white colonist who died in the Boston Massacre and was hailed as the first martyr of the American Revolution.

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''Wilkes and Liberty''

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A popular rallying cry in both the colonies and Britain in response to the expulsion of John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament.

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Boston Tea Party

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On December 16

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Quebec Act

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An act that extended the southern boundary of Quebec to the Ohio River and granted legal toleration to the Roman Catholic Church in Canada.

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Suffolk Resolves

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A series of resolutions passed by a convention of delegates in Massachusetts that urged Americans to refuse obedience to new laws

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Committees of Safety

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Groups authorized by Congress to oversee its mandates and to take action against ''enemies of American liberty

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Lord Dunmore's proclamation

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An offer by the British governor and military commander in Virginia for freedom to any slave who escaped to his lines and bore arms for the king.

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Olive Branch Petition

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An offer to George III reaffirming Americans' loyalty to the crown and hoping for a ''permanent reconciliation.''

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Common Sense

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A pamphlet that appeared in January 1776 that attacked the Constitution of England and the principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government.

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Declaration of Independence

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Document adopted on July 4

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drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress

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including principal writer Thomas Jefferson.

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''American exceptionalism''

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The belief that the United States has a special mission to serve as a refuge from tyranny

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The American Crisis

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An essay by Thomas Paine read by George Washington to his troops shortly before crossing the Delaware River.

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Valley Forge

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The site where Washington's army camped during the frigid winter of 1777-1778.

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Benedict Arnold

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A former commander under George Washington that defected and almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important fort at West Point on the Hudson River and served valiantly in victories at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga.

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Treaty of Paris

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A treaty that won recognition of American independence

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The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included

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all of the above.; During the 1760s

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The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included

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all of the above.

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During the 1760s

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back-country protesters in the Carolinas were known as

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Boston Tea Party

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Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?

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The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.

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Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?

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the repression of Catholicism in the colonies

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Which of the following does not help explain the electrifying impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

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an insistence that America stood ready to supplant Britain as the world's supreme imperial power

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Which of the following was not a source of misgivings in the colonies over the prospect of a complete break with Britain?

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fear that England's withdrawal from North America would leave the former colonies open to frontier conflict with the Spanish

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Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?

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The British public was ambivalent over a war to retain the colonies

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British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because

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the British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.

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Which of the following was not a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?

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the Molasses Act of 1733

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When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government

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the British replied that they were represented by

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The British imposed a direct tax (also called an "internal tax") for the first time on colonists with the

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Stamp Act.

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What did the Sugar Act of 1764 that so vexed the colonists do to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?

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It decreased it.

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Which was not a consequence of the 1765 Stamp Act?

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Postal service was restricted to only those willing to obey the law.

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Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s

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were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar

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Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context

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define "duty."

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What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

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Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever."

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The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were

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a group of wealthy residents of the back country who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.

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a group of wealthy residents of the back country who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.

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Coercive or Intolerable Acts.

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The First Continental Congress met for

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two months.

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Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following except that

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it was common sense that in the struggle for independence

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On October 17

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1777

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What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

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France and Spain.

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In September 1780

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the able American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.

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The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

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Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.

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Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre which became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?

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Paul Revere.

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Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?

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Crispus Attacks.

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Which of the founding fathers argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

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James Otis.

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Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?

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George Washington.

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Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?

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newspapers.

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Who won the Revolutionary War?

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Americans.

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Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?

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Samuel Adams

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The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were

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South Carolina and Georgia.