 | Term | Definition |
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New England Colonies |
northern colonies |
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Middle Colonies |
middle colonies (NY) "breadbasket colony" |
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Southern Colonies |
includes Georgia |
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transportation |
slow; didn't stray far from town |
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education |
only boys can attend school |
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apprentice |
followed a craftsman's instrucions to learn how to do a certain job |
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Puritans |
a group of people who broke away from the Church of England |
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proprietary colony |
governed by a trustees |
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royal colony |
governed by the king |
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parish |
church and British government district |
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crackers |
undesirable people |
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Treaty of paris #1 |
1763- formally ended the war |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
can't settle west of Appalachians |
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Gazzette |
GA's only newspaper |
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Sugar Act |
a tax on sugar and molasses |
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Stamp Act |
a tax on printed documents |
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Navigation Act |
colonies only ship goods on British vessels |
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Liberty Boys |
a group who opposed Stamp Act |
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Townsend Acts |
import taxs on tea paper glass and paint coloring |
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Boston Massacre |
soldiers fired at citizens because they threw snowballs at them |
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Boston Tea Party |
patriots dressed as Mowhawk Indians dumped tea into Boston Bay |
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Intolerable Acts |
4 laws by Parliament |
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Quartering Acts |
citizens had to house soldiers at their own expense |
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2nd Continental Congress |
a meeting of colonis to duscuss tension between British and colonies |
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Common Sense |
pamphlet by Payne |
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Declaration of Independence |
stated freedom of colonies from British rule |
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May 1777 |
adopted 1st state constitution |
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effigy |
a likeness |
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Tories |
loyal to king of England |
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whigs |
citizens ready to break ties with Britain |
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boycott |
a protest where people refuse to buy certain items |
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ratify |
approve |
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tariffs |
tax on imported goods |
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Washington |
warned French Ohio Valley wasn't theirs |
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REW |
Reynolds, Ellis, Ohio |
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Jones |
speaker for colonial assembly |
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Hall, Walton, and Gwinnett |
GA signers of Declaration of Independence |
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French and Indian War |
France and Great Britain over Ohio RIver Valley area |
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Hart |
only women who has a county named after her in Georgia |
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Dabney |
mulatto who saved Clarke's life |
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Clarke |
leader Ga militia |
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Articles of Confederation |
1st US Constitution |
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Battle of Kettle Creek |
turning point of war in GA |
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siege |
soldier wait a city out |
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Anglican church |
1758- Church of GA |
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Battle of Yorktown |
clarke took Augusta from British |
