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Thomas Jefferson
Virginia lawyer known for broad knowledge and skillfully crafted prose
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Samuel Adams
Helped to found Sons of Liberty: a secret resistance group
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Charles Cornwallis
Ambitious british general, captured Charlestown, South Carolina
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George Washington
Led the Patriots
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Loyalists
Colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution
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Patriots
Colonists who supported American independence from Britain
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Battle of Trenton
Washington marched his men to Trenton where they killed 30 and took 918 captives.
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Valley Forge
Site of continental army's camp during the winter of 1777-1778
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Battle of Saratoga
Burgoyne surrendered army to General Gates, October 17, 1777
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Battle of Yorktown
formal British surrender
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Treaty of Paris
Confirmed US independence and set boundaries for the new nation
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote an anonymous 50 page pamphlet attacking King George III.
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Committees of Correspondence
set up to communicate with other colonies about threats to American Liberties
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Boston Massacre
British attack on defenseless citizens
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Townshend Acts
Indirect taxes levied on imported materials
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Stamp Act
Required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, and almanac.
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Tea Act
Company didn't have to pay, but the colonists did
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Intolerable Act
Parliaments response to Boston Tea Party
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Proclamations of 1763
Banned all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Navigation Acts
A series of laws enacted by parliament, beginning in 1651, to tighten England's control of trade in its American colonies
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Thomas Paine
Wrote Common sense to attack King George III
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Sugar Act
Trade law enacted by parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British Colonies in North America.
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Salutary Neglect
An English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies continued economic loyalty.
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