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SS AMERICAN RE Flashcards

1
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Sugar act stamp act Boston massacre

A

Events leading up to the American revolution

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2
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Prohibited westward expansion across Appalachian Mountains

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King George signed the proclamation of 1763

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3
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Great Britain gained new territory followed…

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The French and Indian war

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4
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Reason for proclamation of 1763

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To prevent conflict with the American colonist and native Americans

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5
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The coercive acts of 1774 eliminated the power of…

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Massachusetts colonist to govern themselves

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6
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Port of Boston closed until colonist paid for Boston Tea Party, Quartering Act

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Intolerable Acts

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7
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Stamp act->

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Colonist boycott

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8
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Intolerable acts
(answer=colonist response)

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Colonist send rep to first continental congress

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9
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Many colonists participated in…

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Actions that opposed the stamp act.

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10
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Colonies served mother country

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Mercantilism

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11
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Colonist were opposed to…

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colonial laws created by only parliament

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12
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The consent of the governed. Sugar, stamp and Townshend acts were to recover the cost of defending the colonies, this is->

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“Taxation without representation”

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13
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Natural and possessed at birth

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Unalienable Rights

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14
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Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

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Unalienable Rights

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15
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Crispus Attucks

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A former slave, first of five unarmed American civilians shot at Boston massacre.

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16
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James Armistead

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An American slave, pretending to be a runaway slave, spied on British troops movements and reported to Americans

17
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Revolutionary war begins with this conflict

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Lexington and concord

18
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Continental troops endured a harsh winter

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Valley Forge

19
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Turning point in the revolution

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Saratoga

20
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American victory is secured on the final battle

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Yorktown

21
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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Independence

22
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Great Britain and US signed treaty after general Cornwallis…

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Surrender at battle of Yorktown

23
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main reason for writing the Declaration Of Independence…

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To state the colonist reasons for separating from Great Britain

24
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The year that separation from Great Britain was declared

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1776

25
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Thomas Paine common sense suggested that…

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The American colonies declare independence from England

26
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Called for the founding fathers to remember the ladies

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Abigail Adams

27
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Mercantilism lead to…

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A free enterprise system

28
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Parliament passed the intolerable acts as a…

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Result of the colonist dumping tea in the harbor

29
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The Boston teas party was…

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An act of civil disobedience

30
Q

Made to recover the cost of defending the colonies

A

sugar act
stamp act
townshed act

31
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Number of American civilians killed in the Boston Massacre

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5

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