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Stamp Act
Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items
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Samuel Adams
One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty
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Townshend Acts
Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies
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Boston Massacre
Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed
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Committees of Correspondence
A network of communication set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights
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Boston Tea Party
Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor
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King George III
King of England during the American Revolution
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Intolerable Acts
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British
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Martial Law
rule by the military
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Minutemen
civilian soldiers
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Second Continental Congress
The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
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Olive Branch Petition
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III
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Common Sense
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy
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Thomas Jefferson
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
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Patriots
Colonists who wanted independence from Britain
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Loyalists
Colonists who were loyal to Britain
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Battle of Trenton
Battle won by the Americans in 1776
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Saratoga
Battle won by the Americans in 1777
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Inflation
rise in the price of goods
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Profiteering
Selling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit
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Friedrich von Steuben
Prussian officer who helped train American soldiers
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Marquis de Lafayette
French noble who helped the Americans
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Charles Cornwallis
British General
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Yorktown
Battle that gave Americans victory in the war
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Treaty of Paris
Treaty that officially ended the war
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Egalitarianism
A belief in equality
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Ambush
to attack from a hidden place
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boycott
to refuse to buy certain goods
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Casualty
one who is injured or killed
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corrupt
influenced by others to be dishonest
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delegate
a person given power to act for others; a representative to a convention
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isolate
to set apart from others
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Who led a secret group of colonists called the Sons of Liberty, who protested British Actions?
Samuel Adams
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The Second Continental Congress sent King George III an offer for peace, called the
Olive Branch Petiton
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Thomas Paine argued for the colonies independence from Great Britain in what?
his pamphlet, Common Sense
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The battle at ____________ convinced the French to help the Americans.
Trenton, Yorktown or Saratoga
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Valley Forge
place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-78
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