 | Term | Definition |
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Stamp Act |
Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers |
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Samuel Adams |
One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty |
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Townshend Acts |
Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies |
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Boston Massacre |
Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists wre killed |
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committees of correspondence |
A network of communicaiton set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights |
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Boston Tea Party |
Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor |
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King George lll |
King of Enland during the American Revolution |
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Intolerable Acts |
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British |
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martial law |
Rule by the military |
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minutemen |
Civilian soldiers |
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Secon Continental Congress |
The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence |
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Olive Branch Petition |
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll |
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Common Sense |
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Main author of the Declaration |
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Declaration of Independence |
Document that said the United States was an independent nation |
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Patriots |
Colonists who wanted independence from Britain |
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Loyalists |
Colonists who were loyal to Britain |
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Trenton |
Battle won by the Americans in 1776 |
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Saratoga |
Battle won by teh Amercans in 1777 |
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Valley Forge |
Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778 |
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inflation |
Rise in the price of goods |
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profiteering |
Sellling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit |
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Friedrich von Steuben |
Prussian officer who helped train American soldiers |
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Marguis de Lafayette |
French noble who helped the Americans |
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Charles Cornwallis |
British general |
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Yorktown |
Battle that gave Americans victory in the war |
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Treaty of Paris |
Treaty that officially ended the war |
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egalitarianism |
A belief in equality |
