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What is the Stamp Act
Caused taxes to be placed on all paper goods
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What is the Boston Massacre
During this event on the night of March 5, 1770, British redcoats fired into a crows and killed five townspeople
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What is the Boston Tea Party
Incident in which £1.5 million pounds worth of tea was dumped into Boston Harbor to avoid British tea taxes.
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Who is Lord Dunmore
This Virginia governor led a miltia to Fort Pitt when he recognized a power vacuum in the area.
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Who is Thomas Paine
Writer of the famous work "Common Sense"
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What is the Proclamation of 1763
Act that prevented Colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains
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What are the natural rights and the separation of powers
These two Enlightenment ideas were brought up as justification for colonial resistance
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What are Committees of Correspondence
Committees that allowed Patriots to communicate with leaders in other colonies when new threats to liberty occurred
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What is Kentucky
The Shawnee Indians fought the Virginia militia in this future state.
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Who is George Washington
Old Lieutenant for Britain during the French and Indian War and later fought against the British as a general for the colonies.
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What were the Radical Whigs and the Country Party
The two British opposition parties in Parliament
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What are the Townshend Acts
This new tax legislation was a tax on paper, paint, glass, and tea. It paid the salaries of royal governors, judges, and other imperial officials.
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What is the Quebec Act
This act allowed the practice of Catholicism in Quebec
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Who is John Dickinson
This man was the leader of the moderates in the colonies.
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Who is Thomas Jefferson
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
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Who is John Dickinson
A wealthy Philadelphia lawyer who argued that his fellow colonists were "not Sea Poys, nor Marattas, but British Subjects who are born to liberty, who know its worth, and who prize it high."
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Who were Benjamin Franklin and James Otis
These two men condemned the institution of slavery as a violation of slaves' natural rights.
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What was the Continental Congress
Group of representatives from twelve mainland colonies formed in response to the Coercive Acts and how to respond to them.
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What is Philadelphia
This was the location where many patriot leaders met in May 1775 for the Second Continental Congress.
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What is Minutemen
Name for the "militia" that was established in the colonies before they had assistance from the British.
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What is the Sugar Act of 1764
The act pushed by George Grenville to replace the mostly ineffective Molasses Act of 1733.
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Who was Lord North
This prime minister retained a tax on tea as a symbol of Parliament's supremacy
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What are The Beaver, The Dartmouth, and The Eleanor
What were the names of the ships that three people disguised as Indians boarded to cause the Boston Tea Party?
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What is Salem
Patriots, the majority of Massachusetts, met in this town just nearby to where General Gage's power lied.
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What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle over Boston in Charlestown Massachusetts in the early stages of the Revolutionary War that was a key factor in the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
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