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Chap 66 Flashcards

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Gaspee

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British customs ship that ran aground in Rhode Island and was subsequently burned.

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Comitee of Correspondence

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Provided information on British threats to liberty and established a model of intercolonial cooperation.

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Tea Act of 1773

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Gave a tea monopoly to the British East India Company.

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Boston Tea party

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8 November 1773: Three ships including the Dartmouth had their tea destroyed

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Loyalists

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Brit lovers

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Coercive Acts

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Four acts to punish Massachuts with harbor closure, removal of govorning/judicial rights, and quartering.

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Paxton Boys

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Pennsylvania Scots-Irish who killed innocent Indians

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Regulators

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North Carolina rebels who wanted to overthrow the colonial govornment

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Intolerable Acts

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Nickname for the Coercive Acts

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Quebec Act

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Established too much territory, politics, and Roman Catholothism

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First Continental Congress

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Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to declare the rights of the colonies while maintaining their loyalty

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Minutemen

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A unit of Millitia

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13
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Patrick Henry

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Said to give him liberty or death at the Virginia Convention

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14
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Militia

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Citizen Soldiers

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Regulars

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Professional Soldiers

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Paul Revere

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Warned colonists that the British were advancing to Lexington

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Lexington and Concord

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The first battle of the Revolutionary War on April 19th 1775 that was won by the Americans and put the British in Boston. Instigated by the British seizing armaments in Boston.

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Patriots

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Brit haters

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Tories

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Nickname for Brit lovers

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Hessians

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British Hired Germans

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21
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Second Continental Congress

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Established George Washington, one of the delegates, as commander in Chief

22
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Fort Ticonderoga

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Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

It was Benedict Arnolds idea.

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Ethan Allen

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Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

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George Washington

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Forty-three year old Virginia veteran and delegate

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Bunker Hill

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Battle on Breed’s Hill where the Americans ran out of ammunition and retreated but the British lost more people

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Breed’s Hill

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The actual hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill took place

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Henry Knox

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Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

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Olive Branch Petition

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Petition of the Olive Branch

29
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Common Sense

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Written by Thomas Paine. Anti Brit, anti Monarchy

30
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Thomas Paine

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Wrote Common Sense

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John Adams

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One of the authors of the declaration of independence

32
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Thomas Jefferson

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The author of the declaration of independance

33
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Declaration of Independance

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Approved on Jully 2-4 1776. Declared Brit hatred.

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William Howe

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The replacement for General Thomas Gage

35
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Trenton

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Where George Washington landed

36
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Princeton

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Where he went after he landed

37
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Battle of Saratoga

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Turning point because France joined and 6k Brits elliminated

38
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Benedict Arnold

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Fort Ticonderoga fell to the Americans under Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys. Guns Retrieved by Henry Knox.

He plotted to turn over West Point Fort on the Hudson river to the British.

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Valley Forge

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Location where the American army suffered while waiting for France

This is where Baron Freidrich Von Stueben was sygnificant in training.

40
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Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

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German Drillmaster associated with the Battle of Monmouth

41
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Molly Pitcher

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Nickname for Mary Hays at the Battle of Monmouth

42
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George Rogers Clark

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Reduced Indian attacks and aided in laying claim to northwestern territory while defeating the Brits

43
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siege of Charleston

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Worst defeat of the War under General Benjamin Lincoln

44
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Charles Cornwallis

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Defeated General Benjamin Lincoln at the siege of Charleston

45
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Francis Marion

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The Swamp Fox, annoyed Brits in the south

46
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Battle of Kings Mountian

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Patriot Victory of Tennessee Vigilantes against Cornwallis sent Patrick Furgeson

47
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Nathaniel Greene

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George Washington’s replacement

48
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Marquis de Lafayette

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Fought against Cornwallis at Yorktown

Helped by Admiral de Grasse

49
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Yorktown

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The British were defeated by being surrounded by French and American troops

50
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Treaty of Paris

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3 September 1783 acknowledge that the colonies were independant

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