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Huguenots

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French protestants

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Edict of Nantes

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granted limited religious tolerance to the Huguenots

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Coureurs de Bois

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French traveling settlers who made living off of selling beaver pelt

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Voyageurs

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recruited Natives to join pelt trading cause

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King William’s and Queen Anne’s War

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Fight between England and France for control over North America. Mostly fought between Brit Colonists and Coureurs de Bois

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War of Jenkin’s Ear

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Caused by tension created after King William’s war, and the agreements made at Utrecht. Between Spain and England, mostly fought in the Carribeans and Georgia

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King George’s War

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Sequel to War of Jenkin’s Ear, France and Spain against Britain. Merged with the war of Austrian Succession. Louisburg

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Acadians

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French colonists in Nova Scotia, move to Louisiana after British conquer and become Cajun

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French Indian War

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Fight over the Ohio Valley between Britain and France, merged with Seven Year’s War

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Albany Congress

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lead by Franklin, created to solve problems of invading Natives and French. Both London and the colonies rejected it

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Regulars

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British citizen/militia men

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Battle of Quebec

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between Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm. Both die, but Quebec surrenders

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Pontiac’s Uprising

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laid siege to Detroit, and overran all but three British posts west of the Appalachians. Britain responds with biological warfare

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Proclamation of 1763

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Prohibits settlers from settling over the Appalachians.

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Louis XIV

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likes overseas colonies, expands

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Champlain

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“Father of New France”, explored and founded Quebec area, made Iroqouis angry,

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Edward Braddock

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British commander who tried to capture Fort Duquesne. Ended up leaving west side of the colonies exposed to Native Attacks

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William Pitt

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Loved British Commander, attacks Montreal and Quebec

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James Wolfe

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conquered and died for Quebec, British

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Pontiac

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lead attack against Detroit region.

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21
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Date of Champlain colonizes Quebec

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1608

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Date of Queen Anne’s war

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1702-1713

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21
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Date of French find New Orleans

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1718

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Date of Peace of Paris, Pontiac’s Uprising, Proclamation of 1763

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1763

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Republicanism

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for the greater good, opposed to aristocracy and monarchy

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Radical Whigs

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against corruption

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mercantilism

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state run economy, export more than import

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Sugar Act

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First law passed that raised revenue for the crown

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21
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Stamp tax made because

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military funding

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Admirality courts

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guilty until proven innocent.

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Stamp Act Congress

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brought together 27 delegates from the colonies, drew up statement of rights

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nonimportation agreements

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against the buying of british goods, boy cotting.

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Sons and Daughter of Liberty

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Radicals who “took the law into their own hands”

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Declatory Act

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Britain draws line in hand, says parliament has the right to bind the colonies in any way whatsoever

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Townshend acts

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internal, less direct tax on paper, paint and white lead

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Boston Massacre

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troops inflict 11 casualties

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committees of correspondence

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run by Samuel Adams, send letters and do other things to spread spirit of revolution

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Boston Tea Party

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Colonists toss excess tead from British East India company over board

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Intolerable Acts

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chartered rights of Massachussets taken away, new quartering act

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Quebec Act

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new territory is not given the same rights as English men

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First Continental congress

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Convention, respected men meet, discuss grievances

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The Association

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more radicals who tar and feather

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Lexington and Concord

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fought over colonists siezing ammunition

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Valley Forge

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Soldiers are starving, barely clothed

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camp followers

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women who cooked and cleaned for the men

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John hancock

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leader of the Continental Congress, recieves fortune by smuggling

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George Grenville

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proposed stamp tax, Prime Minister, Americans should pay for defense

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Charles Townshend

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proposed indirect taxes in the Townshend Acts

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Crispus Attackus

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leader of the Boston mob, dies in massacre

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George III

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king of Britain during American rev

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Lord North

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Prime minister of London during American rev, very conservative

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Samuel Adams

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Speaks out about independence early on

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Thomas Hutchinson

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conservative mayor of Boston during tea party

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Marquis de Lafayette

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French gent who will help Washington fight by providing a navy and arms.

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Baron von Steuben

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German drill sargent who whips the American militia men into shape

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Lord Dunmore

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British Royal governor who offers freedom to slaves who volunteer for military

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Date of Quartering Act, Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress

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Date of Boston Massacre

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Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Second Continental Congress

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no call for independence

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Bunker Hill

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strategic military position for Americans, in trenches a mow down charging British forces

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Olive Branch Petition

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professes American loyalty, and begs to prevent further hostilities

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Hessians

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German mercenaries

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Common Sense date of publishment

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Date of Declaration of Independence

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July 4th, 1776

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Patriots

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American rebels against Brits

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Battle of Long Island

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Washington retreating from Manhattan island, narrowly gets awayq

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Trenton

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Washington captures 1000 Hessians after Christmas

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Saratoga

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Burgoyne loses after plowing into the forest

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Model Treaty

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Created by Continental Congress, asked for no military and political connection, only a commercial connection

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Armed Neutrality

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giant alliance between Spain, Holland, France and Russia passively against Britain

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix

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Treaty between natives and Americans. Natives lose most of their land.

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Privateers

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pirates who interrupted British trade

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Yorktown

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Washington and de Grasse defeat Cornwallis in a trap

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Treaty of Paris

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Britain recognizes American independence

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Ethan Allen

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leads Bunker Hill attack

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Benedict Arnold

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helps Ethan Allen

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General Montgomery

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Captures Montreal, dies in battle

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Thomas Paine

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recent citizen of America, rights Common Sense

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Richard Henry Lee

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creates initial motion for declaration of independence, says “give me liberty or give me death”

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Lord Cornwallis

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trapped by Washington in York

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William Howe

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Almost ends Washington, but decides not to follow him

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John Burgoyne

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tasked with “pushing down” Lake Champlain from Canada to meet Howe’s troops in New York. Gets defeated at Saratoga

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Comte de Rochembeau

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Arrives in Manhattan with 6000 French troops

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Nathaneal Green

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British general, fighting Quakers

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Joseph Brant

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Mohawk leader who believed that siding with Britain would end American western expansion

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George Rogers Clark

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captures several forts by floating down river

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Admiral de Grasse

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helps Washington capture Cornwall

76
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Date of Treaty of Paris

77
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Date of Treaty of Fort Stanwix

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