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Who first the Commander of the Continental Army

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George Washington

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What is an insulting term for a British soldier?

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A Redcoat or a Lobsterback or a Bloodyback

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What is the term for an American colonist who supported the King and who opposed independence?

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A Loyalist or a Tory

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Who was the author of the pamphlet “Common Sense”?

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Thomas Paine

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Name the radical Boston patriot who helped to found the Sons of Liberty?

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Samuel Adams

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Name the war fought by the French and the British for control of North America?

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The French and Indian War – also called The Seven Years War

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What is the term for a volunteer, citizen army?

What was name of Boston’s citizen army?

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What is a militia?

Boston’s militia was called the Minutemen.

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What do we call products made or grown for sale to other countries?

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Exports

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This set of laws regulated trade between Britain and the American colonies

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The Navigation Acts

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This is the other term for a representative, like the men representing their colonies at the Continental Congresses

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Delegate

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The cannons captured from this upstate NY fort were used to free Boston from the British naval occupation

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Fort Ticonderoga

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What was the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?

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The Intolerable Acts

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How did colonists protest against the Stamp Act?

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Boycotts and harassing tax collectors

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What is the term for a small printed booklet, such as “Common Sense”?

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A pamphlet

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What was the first major tax placed by the British on the American colonies?

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The Sugar Tax

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What was the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?

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To pay for the debts it had from the French and Indian War

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We call them patriots, but the British call them ______ .

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Traitors or rebels

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The legislature (law making body) of Great Britain

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Parliament

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Clothing made by Daughters of Liberty to avoid having to buy imported British clothing

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Homespun

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He was King of England during the American Revolution

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George III

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This Son of Liberty and silversmith made an engraving of the Boston Massacre that was a good example of patriot propaganda

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Paul Revere

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These groups helped unite the colonies by writing letters and relaying information between them.

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Committees of Correspondance

23
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Why did American colonists believe that Britain had no right to tax them?

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They had no representation in Parliament and, as British citizens, they believed that they had that right, guaranteed in the Magna Carta

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This group brewed “Liberty Tea” in order to protest the Tea Act.

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The Daughters of Liberty

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A small printed booklet, like “Common Sense”

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A pamphlet

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The term for armed resistance to a government

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A rebellion or a revolution?

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What is the term used in the Declaration of Independence for a cruel ruler who takes away the rights of the people?

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Tyrant or Despot

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These laws controlled what products could be imported into America, and to whom Americans could sell their raw materials.

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Navigation act

29
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To refuse to buy goods as a way of protesting.

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A boycott

30
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A common form of intimidation/assault used by the Sons of Liberty to frighten tax collectors.

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Tarring and feathering

31
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This law placed a tax on legal documents, playing cards, and paper.

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The Stamp Act?

32
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This word means too terrible to bear

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Intolerable

33
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The Intolerable Acts were placed on this American city to punish what protest?

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Boston, to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

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This term means to agree to or to allow - the people have to give their _____ in order to be taxed.

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Consent

35
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This is presenting only one side of a story in order to persuade people to support a cause

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Propaganda

36
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This document gave customs officers the authority to search homes and businesses for smuggled goods

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Writ of assistance

37
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This act of vandalism by Minutemen disguised as Mohawk Indians led to the Intolerable Acts

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The Boston Tea Party

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He argued that it was against nature for a large country to be ruled by a small country - so America should be free of Britain.

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Thomas Paine

39
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This group of representatives from most colonies met to decide how to respond to the Intolerable Acts

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The First Continental Congress

40
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This group sent the Olive Branch Petition and appointed George Washing ton head of the Continental Army

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The First Continental Congress

41
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This group sent the Olive Branch Petition and appointed George Washing ton head of the Continental Army

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The Second Continental Congress

42
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The “Shot Heard Round the World” was fired here

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The Battle of Lexington and Concord

on Lexington Bridge

43
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Colonists argued that Writs of Assistance and the Quartering Act violated this right that they had as British citizens

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The right of privacy

44
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This British law required colonists to house and feed British soldiers in several American cities, including Boston

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The Quartering Act

45
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This unpopular and widely ignored British law prohibited colonists from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains

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The Proclamation of 1763

46
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A formal complaint – like those in the 3rd section of the Declaration of Independence

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a grievance

47
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This term means that rights cannot be taken away.

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Unalienable

48
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This part of the Declaration of Independence contains the basic rights of all men.

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Statement of Beliefs and Values

49
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This future President wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

50
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According to the Declaration of Independence, these are the unalienable rights of all men

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

51
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Under what conditions do a people have the right to rebel and replace their government?

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If the government fails to protect the people’s natural rights (or violates the people’s rights)

52
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According to the Declaration of Independence, why are certain rights unalienable?

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Because they are “natural rights” – they come from the Creator

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