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26 Cards in this Set
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Samuel Adams
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Influencial political person
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What was the Commitee of Correspondence
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One of the groups set up by American colonists to exchange information aboutBritish threats to their liberties
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Townshend Acts
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Made by Charles Townshend who proposed new revenue laws in 1767.
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Inflation
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An increase in prices or decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
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Olive Branch Petition
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July 8, 1775 when congress sent this treaty wanting an old harmony to return to British and the colonies. King George said no and assumed rebellious actors and put blocks on American coasts.
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Egalitarianism
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The belief that all people should have equal rights
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Stamp Act
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Put prices on paper goods
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Marcial Law
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Temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority
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Declaration of Independence
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Made by Thomas Jefferson and sparked intrest of John Locke. It said king took away rights and all men are queal.
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Profiteering
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The seeling of goods in short supply at inflated prices
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Common Sense
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Thomas Paine. Attacked King George and monarchy.
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Patriots
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Supporters of American independence. Sacrificed lives, fortune and sacred honour
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Second Continental Congress
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Meeting where loyalties of the colonists caused many debates.
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Fredrich Von Reuben
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Prussin cept and drill master who helped Washington at Valley Forge.
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King George III
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King mad at Boston Tea Party thing, and made act by parlaiment in 1774 called the Intolerable Acts.
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Jefferson got ideas from
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John Locke and the Enlightenment (Ben Franklin)
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Yorktown
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Place on Peninsula where Cornwallis made mistake of setting camp with 7200 men.
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Principal Author of Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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Treaty of Paris
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Treaty confirming US independence and set boundaries stretched from Atlantic to Mississippi river from Canada to Florida.
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Cornwallis
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Wanted his men to all meet in S. Carolina
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Marquis de Lafayette
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French aristured. He loved the Americans and held winter as member of Washingtons crew.
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Valley Forge
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Winder camp place where Washinton and his army struggled to stay alive.
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Three Delegates from Georgia that signed the Declaration
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Gwinnett, Hall, Walton
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People who rode to Lexington
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Revere, Gawes, someone else who actually got there
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Preamble
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Introduction sentence
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Loyalists
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Those who oppesed independence and stayed with Crown.
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