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28 Cards in this Set
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Britain's law-making assembly
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parliament
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law placing a tax on printed materials in the colonies
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stamp act
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to cancel
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repeal
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a group that led protests against the new tax
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Sons of Liberty
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laws passed by Parliament that taxed goods imported by the 13 Colonies from Britain
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Townshend Acts
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tax on imported goods
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tariff
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organized refusal to buy goods
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boycott
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groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods
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Daughters of Liberty
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event in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them
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Boston Massacre
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group of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British
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Commitee of Correspondence
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law passed by Parliament in the early 1770s stating that only the East Indian Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 Colonies
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Tea Act
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protest against Brisish taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773
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Boston Tea Party
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laws passed by British Parliament to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
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American colonists who opposed British rule
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Patriots
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Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution
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Loyalists
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meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts
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First Continental Congress
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volunteer armies
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militia
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colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice
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minutemen
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eyewitness account of an historical event
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primary source
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the war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in with 13 colonies won their independence and became the United States
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American Revolution
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costly victory for British troops over the Partiots in Charlestown, Mass, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Congress of American leaders which first met in 1775, declared independence in 1776, and helped lead the United States during the revolution
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Second Continental Congress
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army formed in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress and led by General George Washington
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Continental Army
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letter sent by the Second Continental Congress to King Geirge III in 1775 in an attempt to avoid war
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Olive Branch Petition
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document declaring the 13 American colonies independent of Great Britian, written mainly by Thomas Jefferson and adopted July 4, 1775 by the 2nd Cont. Congress
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Declaration of Independence
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person who works against his or her country
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traitor
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soldier from one country who are paid to fight for another country
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mercenary
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treaty signed in 1783 that officially ended the American Revolution
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Treaty of Paris
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