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The sugar act

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Was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British pailment

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The stamp act

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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used

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The Boston massacre

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It united the colonist against British witch could eventually lead to the revolutionary war

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The Boston tea party

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The British were furious with the actions of the colonist and needed to impose a punishment

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The intolerable/ coercive act

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Designed to punish colonist

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Patrick henery

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Quickly became notable for his inflammatory rhetoric against the stamp act of 1765

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Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty

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The sons of liberty was an organization that was created in the thirteen American colonies and Samuel Adams was the founder

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John Hancock

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One of Bostons leaders during the crisis that led to the outbreak of the American revolution war in 1775

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Thomas paines common sense

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Getting independence from Great Britain to people in the thirteen colonies

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Declaration of Independence- year,location,author,signiance

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1776, Thomas Jefferson, to announce and explain separation from Great Britain

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Mayflower

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The mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the pilgrims

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Mayflower compact

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The mayflower compact was the first governing document of Plymouth colony

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William Bradford

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William Bradford was an English separatist and then emigrated to the Plymouth colony on the mayflower

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Squanto and samoset

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Squanto was a member of the patuex tribe semoset was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contract with the pilgrims of Plymouth colony

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Puritans

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A member of a group of English protestans

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Massachusetts bay colony

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An English settlement on the east coast of North America

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John Winthrop

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English puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding of Massachusetts bay colony

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Anne huthinsion and roger William

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Anne Hutchinson and roger Williams spoke their minds

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Salem witch trials

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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft

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William penn

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William pen was the som of sir William penn and was an English real estate entrepreneur

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Cause of American Revolutionary War

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The British government decided to make the American colonies pay a large share if the war debt from the French and Indian war

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Loyalists

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Were called tories, they opposed the revolution and many took up arms against the rivals

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Patriots

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Patriots were members of the 13 British colonies who rebelled against British control during the American revolution

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Battle of Lexington and concord

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Started at the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Saratoga

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Marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War

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Winter at valley fordge

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A great trial of the American army, and the 11,000 soldiers stationed here

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Battle of Yorktown

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Cornwalls surrender to George Washington

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Benedict Arnold

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An American hero who switched to fight for the British

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Lead commander of the patriots troops in the war

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George Washington

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Marquis de la fayette

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French aristocrat and military officer who fought in The American Revolutionary War

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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

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Because farmland and a better life

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Virginia company

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Joint stock company

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James town

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English men and boys arrived in the North America to settle

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John smith

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Leader of James town settlement

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Pocahontas

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Was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial steelment of James town

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John Rolfe

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He brought tabacco to the colony of Virginia

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Tobacco

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After john Rolfe brought it to Virginia many places began buy selling and trading it

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Bacons rebellion

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Bacons rebellion was the first rebellion in the American colonies

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Plymouth colony

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It is most famous for introducing thanksgiving and more important introducing self government into America through the mayflower compact

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Pilgrims

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They were people that founded thanks giving

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Quackers

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Are memebers of a historical Christin group of religious movement formally known as the religious society of friends or friends churches

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Pacifist

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A person who believes war and violence is unjustifiable

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James Oglethorpe debtor and buffer colony

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He and a group of charitable investors asked king George for permission to create a utopian experiment

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First Great awaking

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Realization of religious piety that swept through the American great colonies

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Triangle trade

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Used to refer to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to west Africa to be exchanged for slaves

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Poor Richards almanac,Albany plan of union and join or die cartoon

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Join or die cartoon is political

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John Peter zinger trial

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The trial of john Peter zinger a New York printer and important step toward this most precious freedom of American coloniest

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Cause if French and India war

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The conflict was a part of the sever years war among the European great powers including Britain and France

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Proclaim of 1763

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prohibited colonists from setting west of Appalachia

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The u.s. Constitution-father,year and purpose

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James Madison is the father, 1787, to establish a federal government

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Bill of rights

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Are the first 10 admenments

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1st amendment

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The United States constitution prevents congress from making any law respecting and established of religion

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2nd admenment

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Right to bear arms

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4th amendments

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Protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures the government

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5th amendment

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No person shall be held accountable for a capital or otherwise infamous crime,unless on a presentment or indicates of a grand jury, except in a case arising in the land or naval forces

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6th amendment

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Establish the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land

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Three branches of government and they’re purposes

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Legislative- congress and makes the laws
Executive- carries out and inforces laws
Judicial- Supreme Court and interpret the laws

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Whiskey rebellion

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Was a tax protest in the United States

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Alexander Hamilton

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Led the treasury department as a trustee member of president George Washingtons first cabinet

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Alien and sedition acts

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Series of 4 laws passed by the u.s.congress in 1798 and whidespread fear that war with France was imminent

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John sevier

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Frontiers man and political and one of the founding fathers of the state of Tennessee

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Natchez trace

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Network of trials

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Marbury vs. Madison

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Judicial review

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Review by the us Supreme Court of the constitution validity of a legislative act

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McCullough vs. Maryland

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Frendrich von Steuben

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Prussian military officer

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Francis Marion

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Was a military officer who served an the rwa acting with the continual army and the South Carolina military commissions

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Guerrilla warfare

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Fought by irregulars in fast moving small scale actions against otrthpdox military

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Signed by the us and British on September 3 1783

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North west ordinance of 1787

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Northwest territory provided a method of admitting new states to the union from the territory and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory

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Articles of confederation

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Agreements among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution

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Shays rebbelion

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Led to the writing of the new constitution

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The great compromises

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Saved the constitutional convention

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The 3/5 compromise

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Outlined the process for states to count slaves as part of the population

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