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What does No Taxation without Representation mean?

Colonists felt they should not be taxed because they did not get to elect anyone to Parliament – no one to represent them

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Group that opposed English Rule and advocated independence

Sons of Liberty

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a Patriot and Boston merchant; co-founder of the Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams

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What prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.

The Proclamation of 1763

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  • Which battle is this:   skirmish between British Redcoats and Minutemen in ______; “Shot Heard Around the World”; left 8 Minutemen dead and no Redcoats were killed, but was the first battle of the American Revolution

Battle of Lexington 

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List three effects from the French and Indian War

  • Great Britain acquired all lands east of the Mississippi Rive
  • Great Britain was left with a large war debt (national debt doubled 75 million: 133 million euros
  • Turned to the colonies to repay the debt 
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civilian soldiers (militia) that could be ready at a minutes notice

minute men

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Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

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Who said this. "

  • “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

Explain the context behind it.

Patrick Henry

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  • Which battle is this: 
  • Minutemen successfully defended two waves of invasions before running out of ammo and were forced to retreat;  proved Americans could stand up to the British

Battle of Bunker Hill

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Explain why the Boston Massacre happened, what happened, and the result in detail.

-British sent soldiers to the colonies to keep order (Massachusetts) and enforce taxes

  • Violence that erupted when a mob harassed British redcoats in Boston.  It resulted in the deaths of 5 colonists.  

Result: Boston Massacre Trial

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What means the refusal to buy or use

boycott

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Royal Governor of Massachusetts.; commander in chief of British army in North America

General Thomas Gage


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A German soldier

Hessian 

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decisive American victory; 6,000+ Redcoats captured; French enter the war on American’s side and bringing money and supplies

Battle of Saratoga 

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List 8 taxes given by the British to the American colonists leading up to revolution.

sugar

stamp

tea

Townshend

quartering

Boston Port Act

Administration of Justice Act of 1774.

The Massachusetts Government Act:

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Treaty between the French and the United States;  

What was the agreement?

Treaty of Alliance 


Treaty between the French and the United States;  France agreed to help the United States in the war for independence; in exchange the U.S. agreed to support France in future conflicts with Great Britain


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Who defended the British during the Boston Massacre and what was his reasoning behind defending them?

John Adams 

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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."


Who said this and explain the context behind it.

Nathan Hale. 

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The last battle of the Revolution, American colonists win.

Battle at Yorktown, Virginia

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Explain  in detail the Boston Tea Party


Why did it happen, what happened, response by the British

  •  in response to the Tea Act, members of the Sons of Liberty, dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 crates of the East India Company’s tea into the Boston Harbor (10,000 pounds= &1.7 million today)

response: Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

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List the terms and conditions (4) under the Treaty of Paris 1783 

The Terms and Conditions:  

  • Great Britain will recognize the Thirteen Colonies as the independent United States of America.
  • Established a boundary between  the United States and British North America (Canada)
  • Prisoners of war on both sides are to be released.
  • Gave Spain land west of the Mississippi and Florida
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Who printed "Common Sense"

List 5 arguments mentioned in the pamphlet

Thomas Paine

  •  It was absurd for an island to rule a continent.
  • America was not a "British nation"; it was composed of influences and peoples from all of Europe.
  • Even if Britain were the "mother country" of America, that made her actions all the more horrendous, for no mother would harm her children so brutally.
  • Being a part of Britain would drag America into unnecessary European wars.
  • The distance between the two nations made governing the colonies from England complicated. 
  • Britain ruled the colonies for its own benefit, and did not consider the best interests of the colonists in governing them 
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What was the first Continental Congress and name 5 effects from it:

  •  56 delegates met in Philadelphia to address concerns of the colonies 
  • Effects:   
    • Created a declaration of colonial rights
    • Defended the colonies right to run their own affairs.
    • Supported protests in Massachusetts
    • Agreed that if the British used force against the colonies, the colonies should fight back.
    • Reinstated boycott (refusal to buy) 
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  • Which battle is this:
  • hundreds of minutemen successfully fought back the British at the Old North Bridge; after the battle the British began their retreat back to Boston 

Battle of Concord

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