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Causes of the American Revolution
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10/27/2011

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Proclamation of 1763
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colonists could not settle west of the Appalachain Mountains
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Quartering Act
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required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
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Navigation Act
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all goods sold by the colonists had to pass through England
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Sugar Act
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colonies could only buy sugar, coffee, etc. through England
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Currency Act
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outlawed the use of paper money( pounds,chillings)
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Stamp Act
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tax on legal documents, advertisments, newspapers, calenders, etc.
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Stamp Act Congress
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group of representitives who met to protest the taxes from England
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Sons of Liberty
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groups of people in cities all over the colonies formed these groups to protest
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Impressment
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forcing american sailors to join the British Navy
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Townshed Acts
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Taxes on glass, paper, paint and lead
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Redcoats
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British Soldiers
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Boston Massacre
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redcoats fired into an angry mob of colonists, killing 5
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Crispus Attucks
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African American, first killed in the Boston Massacre
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Samuel Adams
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leader of the movement to push for independence, leader of the Boston Tea Party
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Comittees of Correspondence
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colonists communicated with each other form town to town
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Boston Tea Party
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colonists dressed as Indians and threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
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Intolerable Acts
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closed Boston Harbor until tea was paid for, gave more power to the governor
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First Continental Congress
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delegates from the colonies met here to denounce the Intolerable Acts and support Massachusetts
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Minutemen
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colonial militia men, could be ready in a minutes notice
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Patriots
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opposed British policy
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Loyalists
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supported British policy
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Patrick Henry
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Virginian who wanted independence from England,

"Give me freedom or give me death"

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Paul Revere
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Went on the famous ride to warn that the British were coming
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Lexington and Concord
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first shot of the American Revolution was fired here
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Second Continental Congress
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set up a Continental Army and chose George Washington to be Commander in Cheif
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Ethan Allen
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took Fort Ticonderoga from the British(turning point in the war)
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Olive Branch Petition
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offer to cease fire and solve problems peacefully, colonists sent this to England and the king refused
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Thomas Paine
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wrote phamplets called "Common Sense" to convince people to push for independence
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Declaration of Independence
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declared that the colonies were free and independent from Great Britian
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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first battle of the revolution, colonists lost but showed thay could fight with the British
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Battle of Saratoga
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colonists won and convinced France to enter the war on the Patriots side
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Valley Forge
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where the Patriot army spent the winter of 1777
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George Rodgers Clark
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waged war on the British on the Frontier
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John Paul Jones
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sailor who fought the British off the coast of Britian
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Battle of Yorktown
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last battle of the revolution, where Cornwallis was defeated by G.W
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Treaty of Paris 1785
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U.S was independent, set boundaries, fishing rights, repay debts, return slaves, give property back to the Loyalists
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Thomas Jefferson
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wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Marquis de Lafayette
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French Soldier who came to America to fight on the colonists side
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