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Honors American History
The American Revolution
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History
8th Grade
11/17/2008

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Propaganda
Definition
stories or images designed to support a particular point of view
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Mercenary
Definition
hired soliders
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Repeal
Definition
abolish
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Boycott
Definition
refusal to buy goods,oftenly used to protest movements
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Minutemen
Definition
colonial militia men, ready in a minute's notice
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Redcoats
Definition
British soldiers
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Hessians
Definition
German mercanaries
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Gureilla Warfare
Definition
hit-and-run military attack tactic
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Patriot
Definition
American colonist soldiers
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Loyalist
Definition
colonists who sided with Britain
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Siege
Definition
surround opposing group in battle
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Samuel Adams
Definition
protester against British--Boston Massacare, cousin of John Adams
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John Adams
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agreed to defend soliders, cousin of Sam Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
main author of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Paine - Common Sense(pamphlet)
Definition
argued for indepedence, written in common language(sells well)
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Lafayette
Definition
(French) will become an assistant to Washington and his Troops
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Baron von Steuben
Definition
will train colonial soliders(Prussian)
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John Paul Jones
Definition
leader of colonial navy
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George Rogers Clark
Definition
led patriots during War in the West
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Francis Marion "Swamp Fox"
Definition
most successful patriot leader
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Sugar Act
Definition
replaced the molasses Act, aimed specifically at raising revenues from the colonies
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Committees of Corespondence
Definition
to help unite protesters, contacted other towns and colonies to share ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them
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Stamp Act
Definition
required colonists to purchase a stamp for newspapers, pamplets, legal documents, and other items
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Sons of Liberty
Definition
secret societies, used violence to frighten tax collectors
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Townshend Act
Definition
placed duties on imported glass, lead, paintgs, paper, and tea; made it easier for tax collectors to get writs of assistance
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Writs of Assistance
Definition
special search warrants allowingn tax collectors to search for smuggled goods
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Boston Massacare
Definition
British soliders fired into a crowd of colonists
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Tea Act
Definition
kept duties on imported tea in place, allowed British East India Company to directley export to the colonies
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Boston Tea Party
Definition
protest against the Tea Act, group of colonists dumped 340+ chests of tea into the Boston Harbor from British tea ships
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Intolerable Acts
Definition
closed Boston Harbor, canceled Massachusetts's charter, moved trials of colonial officials to Britain, allowed new Quartering act and Quebec act, gave Cnaada control of Ohio region
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First Continental Congress
Definition
decide how to handle increased British taxation and abuses by British autorities
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Second Continental Congress
Definition
decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord
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