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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
Marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War
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Winter at valley fordge
A great trial of the American army, and the 11,000 soldiers stationed here
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Battle of Yorktown
Cornwalls surrender to George Washington
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Benedict Arnold
An American hero who switched to fight for the British
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Lead commander of the patriots troops in the war
George Washington
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Marquis de la fayette
French aristocrat and military officer who fought in The American Revolutionary War
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Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?
Because farmland and a better life
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Virginia company
Joint stock company
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James town
English men and boys arrived in the North America to settle
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John smith
Leader of James town settlement
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Pocahontas
Was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial steelment of James town
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John Rolfe
He brought tabacco to the colony of Virginia
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Tobacco
After john Rolfe brought it to Virginia many places began buy selling and trading it
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Bacons rebellion
Bacons rebellion was the first rebellion in the American colonies
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Plymouth colony
It is most famous for introducing thanksgiving and more important introducing self government into America through the mayflower compact
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Pilgrims
They were people that founded thanks giving
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Quackers
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
A person who believes war and violence is unjustifiable
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James Oglethorpe debtor and buffer colony
He and a group of charitable investors asked king George for permission to create a utopian experiment
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First Great awaking
Realization of religious piety that swept through the American great colonies
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Triangle trade
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
Join or die cartoon is political
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John Peter zinger trial
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
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
prohibited colonists from setting west of Appalachia
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The u.s. Constitution-father,year and purpose
James Madison is the father, 1787, to establish a federal government
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Bill of rights
Are the first 10 admenments
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1st amendment
The United States constitution prevents congress from making any law respecting and established of religion
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2nd admenment
Right to bear arms
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4th amendments
Protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures the government
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5th amendment
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
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
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
Was a tax protest in the United States
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Alexander Hamilton
Led the treasury department as a trustee member of president George Washingtons first cabinet
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Alien and sedition acts
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
Frontiers man and political and one of the founding fathers of the state of Tennessee
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Natchez trace
Network of trials
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Marbury vs. Madison
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Judicial review
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
Prussian military officer
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Francis Marion
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
Fought by irregulars in fast moving small scale actions against otrthpdox military
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Treaty of Paris 1783
Signed by the us and British on September 3 1783
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North west ordinance of 1787
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
Agreements among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution
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Shays rebbelion
Led to the writing of the new constitution
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The great compromises
Saved the constitutional convention
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The 3/5 compromise
Outlined the process for states to count slaves as part of the population

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