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Time period where colonists developed their own sense of identity separate form England.

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Salutary Neglect

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What were some contributing factors to the Revolutionary War?

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  • Enlightenment
  • Great Awakening
  • Geography (distance from England made Americans feel more independent)
  • French and Indian War (huge factor)
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What were the major affects of the French and Indian War?

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  • the colonists had a more positive outlook on life

- Britain was in deep debt

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Said that the colonist were forbidden of going west of the Appalachians

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Proclamation Line of 1763

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Why did the peacetime army anger the colonists?

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They had to compete for jobs with the soldiers

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Act passed by Britain that taxed goods coming into the colonies from other places, also called the Revenue Act

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Sugar act

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Notion that although the colonists had not elected members to parliament, they were nonetheless represented

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Virtual representation

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Taxed all paper products, affects and angers the colonists more than the sugar act

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Stamp act of 1765

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Belief that parliament reigned supreme and could pass acts as they saw fit

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Parliamentary Sovereignty

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Act that put new duties on imports

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Townshend revenue acts

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9 colonies sent reps to discuss what to do about the Stamp Act and decide on a colonial wide boycott of English goods

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Stamp Act congress

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How do the women get involved with the boycott on English goods?

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They made homespun close

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Who gave an anti stamp act speech at the house of burgesses in Virginia?

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Patrick Henry

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Passed by Virginia, urged colonists to fight against stamp act

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Virginia resolves

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Who led the Sons of Liberty?

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Sam Adams

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Declares England’s right to pass laws for the colonies

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Declaratory Act

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Refers to the peacetime arms firing into a mob of unarmed protesters , left 5 people dead and many wounded

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Boston Massacre

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Black man killed in the Boston massacre, first to be killed

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Crispus Attucks

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Native American Rebellion that proves the peacetime army’s inability to defend

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Pontiacs Rebellion

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Allowed colonists to keep informed about British wrongdoings in the colonies, organized by Sam Adams

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Committee of correspondence

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All Townshend duties were eventually repealed except for the one on…

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Tea

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Refers to colonists dressed as natives throwing tea into the Boston harbor

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The Boston Tea Party

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This tea company was saved by bankruptcy with the tea act

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East India Company

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Acts passed by King George in response to the Boston Tea Party.

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Intolerable acts, also called the coercive acts

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What did the coercive acts say/do?
1) Royal Navy blockade on Boston harbor 2) colonists had to quarter soldiers 3) people had to be tried for wrongdoings in England instead of in the colonies
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Who was made the new governer of Massachusetts to enforce the intolerable acts?
General Gage
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What happened at the first continental congress?
Began training citizens for war
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Resistance to coercive acts, boycott of English goods
Suffolk resolve
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Where was the first continental congress?
Philadelphia
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What colony did not participate in the first continental congress?
Georgia
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Where was the shot heard around the world?
Lexington and Concorde
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Who is famous for warning the rebels of the British?
Paul revere
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What British General fought in the battle of bunker hill?
General Howe
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Who won the battle of bunker hill?
British, although they suffered 40% casualties
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What happened at the second continental congress?
The Declaration of Independence was written
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Act where England blockaded all trade between colonists and the world, war on commerce
Prohibitory acts
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Writer of Common Sense, first work to openly ask for independence
Thomas Paine
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Series of articles written by Thomas Paine, gave Washington's men encouragement to keep fighting while at valley forge
The American Crises
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Where did the second continental congress meet?
Independence Hall in Philadelphia
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Who was the main author of the Deceleration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
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What major issue was left out of the declaration of dependence so not to divide congress?
Slavery
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When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
July 4 1776
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What where the parts of the Declaration of Independence ?
1) write of the people, inalienable rights 2) wrongdoings of the King 3) actually declaring of independence
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What were the inalienable rights of the people as outlined in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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Why did England experience difficulties during the war?
America was so big, it was hard to completely occupy
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What was Phase 1 of the war nicknamed?
The northern campaign
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What country did the British flee to?
Canada
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American war general who turned against America and began fighting for the British
Benedict Arnold
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What was Britain's plan in phase 1?
Isolate New England
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What city did the British set in flames??
New York
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What river did Washington cross on Christmas Eve?
The Delaware
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Who did Washington and his men defeat after crossing the Delaware, helped revive the spirit of the revolution
The heshians
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What was Washington's strategies during phase 2 of the war?
Guerrilla warfare
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What battle is described as the turning point in the war?
Battle of Saratoga
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Who negotiated French assistance?
Benjamin Franklin
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What was phase 3 nicknamed?
The southern strategy
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What was Britain's strategies during phase 3?
Use the southern loyalists to their advantage
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What us general harassed Cornwallis as he moved through the Carolina's?
Nathaniel Green
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Who was the US general who fought in the battle of Yorktown?
Washington
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Who surrendered at the battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis
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Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris

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