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ActsActs

Book Of ActsBook Of Acts - $100

This Act generated the most protest in the colonies

Stamp Act

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This was the first British law intended to raise revenue in the

colonies

Sugar Act

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As a result of American opposition to this Act,

British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law

and order

Townshend Act

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The most drastic measure of the these Acts was the Boston Port

Act.

Intolerable Acts

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These Acts asserted Parliaments’ absolute authority over the

American Colonies

Declaratory Acts

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The Revolutionary War began with fighting in New England; then in

1777, 1778, fighting was concentrated in the middle colonies;

and the fighting concluded in __________.

the South

BattlesBattles - $200France waited to give open

assistance to America until after the victory at ____ because the French thought the colonists’

chances of winning slim before the victory.

Saratoga

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Lord Cornwallis was the leader of the British Army that lost this

final battle.

Battle of Yorktown

BattlesBattles - $400In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped

restore confidence in America’s military by defeating the ____ at Trenton and the ___ at Princeton

Hessians; British

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The basic strategy of the British in 1777 was to try to isolate ____

New England

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The first to sign the Declaration of Independence was ____

John Hancock

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A pamphleteer who first organized committees to

exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy

Samuel Adams

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A Massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates’ solution to the imperial crisis at the First

Continental Congress

John Adams

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A radical group that favored liberty and was influential in staging the Boston Tea Party

Sons of Liberty

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He was a casualty of the Boston Massacre. The first African American man killed in the

Revolution.

Crispus Attucks

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This person wrote This person wrote Common Common SenseSense

Thomas Paine

ContinentalsContinentals - $200A major purpose of ___was to

explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revolted

Declaration of Independence

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In order to for this economic theory to take root; Britain had to

regulate colonial shipping and tobacco production in their

colonies.

mercantilism

ContinentalsContinentals - $400This group was called to order to

consider ways of redressing colonial grievances

The 1st Continental Congress

ContinentalsContinentals - $500French officer who ultimately secured France’s assistance for

the Colonials

Marquis de Lafayette

Gov.Gov. - $100This in 1783 stipulated the British to

recognize U.S. independence, the boundaries of the U.S. were from the

Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River between the Great Lakes and Spanish

Florida and that Americans cease persecution of Loyalists

Treaty of Paris

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In a ____, power comes from the people themselves.

Republic

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This group called for a complete boycott of British goods.

The First Continental Congress

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When the ______ chose George Washington’s to lead the colonial

army was as largely political matter.

Second Continental Congress

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This final initiative by the Continental Congress professed

loyalty to the British Crown

Olive Branch Petition

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As the War for Independence began, ____ had the advantage of

overwhelming national wealth and naval power.

Britain

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Hired soldiers that the Declaration of Independence rails

against

mercenaries

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They believed that a country’s economic wealth could be

measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury.

Mercantilists

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When Parliament passed these, colonists suspected that it was a trick to get them to violate their

principle of “No taxation without representation.

Tea Acts

PlethoraPlethora - $500These were beneficial to colonists

because they were paid subsidies for producing ships’ parts and stores,

tobacco growers were guaranteed a monopoly of the British market for their crop and colonial trading ships were protected by the Royal Navy.

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