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What is a militia?
This is a group of citizens soldiers
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Who is Paul Revere?
The first piece of American propaganda was created by this person following the Boston Massacre.
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What is the Sugar Act (1764)?
This act of parliament counterintuitively both angered colonists and lowered the price of sugar.
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What is Lexington?
The tensions between colonists and British redcoats spilled over at this place, location of the "shot heard round the world."
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Who is George Washington?
This person was appointed head of the Continental Army.
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What is prohibit?
When you prevent something, you do this to it.
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What is Common Sense?
Authored by Thomas Paine, this document neatly quipped: " there is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."
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What are paper goods?
The Stamp Act taxed these.
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What is Massachusetts?
This New England colony was home to much of the drama leading up to the Revolutionary War.
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Who is William Prescott?
William Prescott is supposed to have commanded "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at this battle near Boston.
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What are volunteers?
Those who willingly step forward are called this.
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
This, the original governing document of the United States, formed a "firm league of friendship" among the states.
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What are glass, paint, lead, tea, and/or paper?
Identify four things were taxed by the Townshend Acts (1767).
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What is Virginia?
George Washington was from this colony - the most populous of the Thirteen Colonies.
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Who is Benedict Arnold?
This famous turncoat (traitor) was an early leader for the colonists before exchanging information on West Point for nearly a million dollars and fleeing to Britain.
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What is cowering?
This word is a synonym for crouching.
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What is natural rights?
The opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence assert that "these" exist, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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What is the Quebec Act (1774)?
This part of the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts gave away land in the Ohio River Valley that colonists considered to be theirs.
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Who are the Mohawks?
During the Boston Tea Party, members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans from this tribe.
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What is the (Second) Continental Congress?
This group of leaders authorized the Olive Branch Petition.
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What is usurpation?
This is the illegal seizure or occupation of a throne or seat of authority.
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What is (constitutional) monarchy?
The authors of the Articles of Confederation were attempting to distance the USA's government from what type of government?
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What is the the Declaratory Act?
As a response to repealing the Stamp Act due to the protests of the colonies, British Parliament passed this act which gave them the right to pass any tax they please.
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What is virtual representation?
When colonists campaigned vigorously for representation in Parliament, Parliament responded by claiming that all British citizens had this type of representation.
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What is tarred-and-feathered?
The old man accused of being a loyalist within Barry Denenburg's novel, The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary Patriot, had this public punishment done to him.
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