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Began in 1754. France lost Canada.
What was the French and Indian War or Seven Years War?
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Rebel leaders met in Philadelphia and demanded the British Parliament repeal all oppressive legislation.
What was the first Continental Congress? (1774)
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Most famous female African American writer of the revolutionary period.
Who was Phyllis Wheatley?
100
British tax to raise money to pay for the Seven Years War, angered Americans because they thought this was only the beginnning of British control.
What was the Stamp Act ?(1765)
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They evacuated with the British at the end of the war and went to Canada or the Caribbean Islands.
Who were Black Loyalists?
200
British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five Americans.
What was the Boston Massacre? (1770)
200
Created the United States of America on July 4, 1776.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
200
The most famous African American mathemetician of the revolutionary period. Helped to design the city of Washington.
What was Benjamin Banneker?
200
A tax that gave a British monopoly over Americans' favorite beverage. Americans felt this would lead to other oppressive measures against them.
What was the Tea Act ?(1772)
200
Large numbers of these people went to live in cities after they were emancipated or escaped from slavery.
Who were free African Americans?
300
Lexington and Concord
What was the first battle of the revolution? (1775)
300
The Virginia governor that proclaimed any slave would be free who joined the British.
Who was Lord Dunmore?
300
Founded mostly by Quakers and Free African American leaders to petition northern legislatures to act against slavery.
What were anti-slavery societies?
300
Ships hired by governments to raid their enemies.
What were privateers?
300
A safe haven for runaway Africans and native Americans.
What is Spanish Florida?
400
Brandywine and Germantown
What were the battles fought for Philadelphia in the fall of 1777?
400
Intellectual movement, also known as the Age of Reason, that saw people use science to understand nature
What is the Enlightenment?
400
griot, rice cultivation, animism
What did Africans bring to America?
400
Timber, molasses, hemp, wheat, corn, dried fish
What were American products of the Triangle trade
400
Two slave states next to Pennsylvania
What were Delaware and Maryland?
500
Yorktown
What was the last battle of the American Revolution? (1781)
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Thomas Paine's pamphlet that called for freedom of all peoples.
What is "Common Sense" ?
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The individual act of freeing a slave.
What is manumission?
500
The rallying cry of Americans against British Parliament
"Taxation without representation is tyranny!"
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The north abolished them the south made them stricter
What were slave codes?