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Agreement signed by Great Britain and the US granting the US independence, territory, and fishing rights.
Treaty of Paris
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Indian war led by Ottawa chief Pontiac against settlers of western lands.
Pontiac's Rebellion
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Tax on all printed materials
Stamp Act
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Secret group of patriots formed in 1765 to oppose the stamp act and to protest British authority in the colonies.
Sons of Liberty
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Delegates from 9 colonies gather in NYC to discuss how to get rid of Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
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Native American Attitude
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Banned settlement west of the Appalation Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
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Tax on sugar, molassas, tea, etc.
Sugar Act
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The colonists agreement to not buy British goods.
Nonimportage agreements
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-Boston Sons of Liberty
-Failed at brewing
-House of Represenatives for Massachusetts
Samual Adams
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Law saying British Government can govern America.
Declaratory Act
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-Great Britain's finance minister
-He thinks people opposed the Stamp Act because tax was collected in the colonies.
Charles Townshend
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Search warrants issued to aid customs officers in the search for smuggled goods
Writs of assistance
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-5 colonists dead
-Between colonists and the British
-Angry Crowd
Boston Massacre
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Allowment to let British sell tea directly to the colonies without paying some duties.
Tea Act
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Punishing Boston, British getting more powerful.
Intolerable Acts
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Duties on imported goods.
Townshend Acts
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Requiring the colonist to house and supply the British troops
Quartering Act
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Group that informed colonists about British policies
Committee of Correspondence
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90,000lbs of tea in Boston Harbor to protest tax.
Boston Tea Patry
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Religious rights to French Roman Catholics and Ouebec boundaries to Ohio River.
Quebec Act
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Patriot Vicotry. Durring Revolutionary War which convinced France to be on Colonists side
Battle of Saratoga
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RW battle which Washington's army attacked and beater Hessian army.
Battle of Trenton
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RW battle in the west and the Patriots caputre another British fort
Battle of Vincennes
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RW battle. British beat Patriots in SC
Battle of Camden
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British surrendered here.
Yorktown
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Wrote to Lord North
George III
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-First President
-General
-Served twice as a Virginia delegate.
George Washington
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The French General in the battles
Rochambeau
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Treaty signed so the colonies could no longer be a part of the British empire
Treaty of Paris 1783
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Affects of the Revolution:
- -Freedom
- -No rule
- -Republic
- -Happy
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-There before the colonists
-Angry about the colonists settling west
Native Americans
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Plead for Peace
Olive Branch Petition
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Hills good for protection, and don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes!
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Meeting of delegates from 12 colonies to discuss how they hate British rule
First Continental Congress
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Choose Washington as commander for the Army
Second Continental Congress
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-Had absolutely no rights:
-No vote
-No property
-No equalness
Women and African Americans
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"Remember the Ladies..."
Mum Bett
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Wrote first draft of Declaration of Independance
Thomas Jefferson
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Wrote "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
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Commander in chief for the British
William Howe
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-General
-For British
-Admited Defeat
Charles Cornwallis
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One of Washington's officers
Henry Knox
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Be a Patriot?
- -Fight until there is nothing
- -Determined
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Be a loyalist?
- -British are powerful
- -Protected
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Army disadvantages
- -Not experienced
- -Not organized
- -Not that big of an army to support them
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Foreigners helped by:
- -Smuggled in goods
- -France supported the colonists
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Lexington and Concord
2 battles right next to eachother. 8 dead
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