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George Whitefield
- Nice evangelist preacher that traveled
- attracted big crowds which helped colonist fell united
- very good speaker
- said type of christianity didn't matter
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Middle passage
Part of African slave trade
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Jonathan Edwards
scary evangelist preacher
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great awaking
religious movement
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Pontiac's rebellion
Indian rebellion where no land changed hands
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Proclamation 1763
Limits legal settlement west
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treaty of paris 1763
- ends seven years war (French Indian War)
- france is completely out of North America.
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stamp act 1765
- direct tax on many paper items
- later repealed
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Townshend Act 1767
- Tax on various goods
- Later repealed expect for tea tax
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Boston Massacre 1770
only 5 people died
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Intolerable acts 1774
- quartering act
- british soldiers tried in England
- Massachusetts charter revoked
- No meetings allowed
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Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams was a leader
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Boston Tea Party
tossed tea into boston harbor
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First continental Congress seto 1774
- tired to resolve problem
- established boycotts
- ask for repealment of intolerable acts
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Paul Revere
was caught in Lexington
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second continental congress 1775
- declared independence
- established army
- sent an olive branch petition and asked for cease fire
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Thomas Paine
sold 600,000 copies of common sense
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declaration of independence
- 1776
- thomas jefferson main author
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