Lesson 1 Flashcards

1
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Debt

A

owe money to someone

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2
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King George III

A

british king wanted to tax colonists

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3
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Parliament

A

people who make British laws

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4
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Stamp act

A

tax on paper products news papers, documents etc.

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5
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No taxation without representation

A

don’t tax us without our input

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6
Q

Congress

A

formal meeting which can make laws

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7
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Patrick henry

A

Fought against the stamp act

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8
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Repeal

A

Cancel stamp act

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9
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Sons of liberty

A

organized protests

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10
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Effigy

A

life sized puppet

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11
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Boycott

A

stop buying products

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12
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Townshend act

A

taxed paper wool glass paint led

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13
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Tariff

A

taxes on goods coming from another country

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14
Q

Samuel addams

A

fought for American rights

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15
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Mercy Otis warren

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made her own things

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16
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Daughters of liberty

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made their own clothes and tea Spinning bees

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17
Q

Tea tax

A

only thing that was not taxed after townshend acts got repealed

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18
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Boston massacre

A

5 people died by the shooting of British soldiers

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19
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Crispus attucks

A

escaped slave that got shot

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20
Q

Massacre

A

killing of many people

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21
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Express writers

A

get messages to people by horse

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22
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paul rever

A

One of the express writers

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23
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Boston tea party

A

dressed as Indians and threw tea into water 342

24
Q

Intolerable acts

A

Blockade, quarter, martial law

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Quarter
let soldiers stay in your home and take care of them
26
Martial law
Town controlled by millatary
27
blockade
block entry
28
patritots
against Britain’s laws
29
loyalist
for the british
30
Neutral
has not picked a side
31
Patrick henry
gave a speech
32
Thomas gage
british leader
33
Deceleration of independence
a written paper with the law for rights
34
Treason
crime for fighting against own country
35
King George III
British king
36
Minute men
Men ready to fight
37
Milita
British military
38
Battle of bunker hill
Patriots fought British on hill
39
John handcock
President of second congress
40
Pettition
Written request for rights
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Richard Henry lee
Asked congress to vote for independence
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Benjiman franklin
Helped create the document
43
Rights
freedom
44
Independence
freedom
45
Continental army
Army of paid soldiers
46
German mercenaries
soldiers that are paid to fight for another country
47
Cannons
Dragged by oxen and Knox’s men
48
Olive branch petition
wrote a petition to king George asking for rights
49
common sense
a letter written like the decleration of independence
50
Women
carried water to men in battle fields and made clothes took care of kids etc.
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Alliance
a formal agreement of friendship
52
Benedict Arnold
betrayed country
53
John Burgoyne
British general
54
William howe
british general that did not do the plan
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