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UNIT 1
for final
14
Social Studies
11th Grade
12/18/2011

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Term
Precedent:
Definition
when people do stuff because someone before them did
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Reasons for colonization:
Definition
freedom, land, better opportunities
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Realities of colonization:
Definition
hard work, Native Americans died, buffalo almost extinct
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Causes of revolution:
Definition
French and indian war, stamp act, intolerable acts
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French and Indian war:
Definition
war that left us in debt to England, getting them to want to tax us
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Stamp act:
Definition
charged money on paper goods and basically limited freedom of speech
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Intolerable Acts:
Definition
acts from England that angered the colonists
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Boycotts:
Definition
people decide to not to shop at stores in order to protest
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Use of propaganda:
Definition
drawings and political cartoons
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Common sense:
Definition
Thomas Paine wrote, talking about why America should go to war
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Tyranny:
Definition
a form of government where the leader is a dictatator
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Declaration of independence:
Definition
America declaring independence from England
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Articles of confederation:
Definition
Laws that were written after the war that were not particularly
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Constitution:
Definition
laws of the nation
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