History quiz Flashcards
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Proclamation of 1763
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- set territorial limits on where European colonists could settle in America. Its purpose: to appease Indigenous people
2
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Stamp Act
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It was a tax that made colonists pay tax on necessities they bought to get England out of debt after the French and Indian war and they had to show they paid tax with a stamp
3
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Writs of assistance
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- It let British soldiers search through colonists things without a warrant because they were smuggling things
4
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Paul Revere
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The person who said the British are coming
5
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Patrick Henry
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Was a lawyer and became famous through his speeches against the British
6
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correspondence
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Communicationbetween 2 things
7
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Boston Tea Party
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- When Americans through lots of British tea into the ocean dressed up as Natives as retaliation to tax on tea
8
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civil disobedience
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- Nonviolently not obeying the commands of the government
9
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1st continental congress
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- A secret meeting of 56 delegates to resist the British
10
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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- The colonists were preparing to fight back against the British so the red coats went to get their weapons. When they arrived the Minutemen were outnumbered so they retreated but suddenly a shot ragout and fighting began but the minutemen used the terrain to their advantage making it difficult for the British to firer back making them retreat
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Salutary Neglect
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- The British aloud north American colonies to trade with other countries becuase the British didn’t care
12
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Quartering Act
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- Forced colonists to let British soldiers into their homes without their permition and colonists had to give them food, water and a place to sleep for free part of intolerable acts
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Repeal
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Take back or delete a law
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Crispus Attucks
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He was a slave and escaped and was also the first to die at the Boston Massacre
15
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John Adams
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- Was second American president
