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This battle helped to persuade France + Spain to support America’s pursuit of independence from Britain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga? (Battle: late 1777, alliance 1778)
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This is a historical English common-law doctrine stating that upon marriage, a woman's independent legal existence was suspended and subsumed into that of her husband.
What is coverture?
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One who was killed in the Boston Massacre was this person, a sailor of mixed Indian-African-white ancestry. This person would be remembered as the "first martyr" of the American Revolution
Who was Crispus Attucks?
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This is the significance of the Battle of Yorktown.
What is the final major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, ending in a decisive victory by the Continental Army and French forces that effectively secured American independence?
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These are 2 tensions that developed between Americans and the British related to the French + Indian War.
Force colonists into the army, Seize supplies, House soldiers in colonists’ homes, Won’t let Americans serve as officers, Issue Proclamation of 1763
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This argued that the "invisible hand" of the market directed economic life more effectively and fairly than government intervention. It greatly influences those who wrote the Constitution.
What is Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations?
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This radically altered Massachusetts law by curtailing town meetings and allowing for appointments, rather than election of lawmakers.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
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These are the 2 methods northern states used to abolish slavery in the Revolutionary Era.
What are banning slavery through their new Constitutions or enacting statutes (laws) for gradual emancipation?
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Controversy over these inspired the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which forbids general search warrants in the United States of America.
What are writs of assistance?
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In this colony nearly the entire prewar elite opposed independence, fearing that severing the tie with Britain would lead to rule by the “rabble” and to attacks on property. After the war, a vacuum of political leadership opened the door for the rise of new pro-independence leaders.
What is Pennsylvania?
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This is why Nathaniel Greene was considered the "Savior of the South" in the Southern Phase of the Rev War.
He wore down British forces under General Cornwallis by using mobile and hit-and-run strategies rather than risking heavy losses in traditional open-field battles. Drew the British away from their supply lines.
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This held that, although women were barred from direct political power, voting, and office-holding, they had an important patriotic role in educating their sons for these duties.
What is Republican Motherhood?
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These are 2 Enlightenment thinkers + their ideas that influenced the American Revolution.
John Locke: Natural rights→ personal agency, Consent of the governed
Rousseau: Social contract, Right to overthrow overbearing government
Montesquieu: Republican form of gov’t is best, Separation of powers
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Between 1777 and 1804, every state north of Maryland took steps toward emancipation, the first time in recorded history that legislative power had been used for such a purpose. This was the first state to outlaw slavery.
What is Vermont?
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Jefferson's arguments in the Declaration of Independence listed a series of these against the king.
What are grievances?
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Explain the significance of this image
Propaganda. Revere depicted British Redcoats standing in a neat, organized firing line, with a commanding officer giving an explicit order to fire. In reality, the March 5, 1770 event was a chaotic, nighttime incident where an unruly mob of colonists pelted soldiers with snowballs, ice, and rocks.
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These are 5 actions of the Americans that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution. (Must name + describe)
See handout from class
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This became the foundation of the separation of Church and State that is built into the First Amendment.
What is the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom from VA?
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At its low point, Washington's army had dwindled from 28,000 to 3,000. To regain momentum, Washington decided to launch a surprise attack on Hessians here.
Where is Trenton, NJ? Followed by Princeton.
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These are 5 provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Independent gov’t, territory up to the Mississippi River ceded , Land reserved for the Indian nations would now be open for settlement, No British military presence, Free trade