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a sudden and complete change of government |
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an armed fight against one's government |
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an event when the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped 300 chests of tea overboard to protest the tax on tea |
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a new set of laws by the British which forced colonists to follow rules that were not fair |
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a fight that broke out between angry colonists and British soldiers; some believe this was the first attack in the Revolutionary War |
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Proclamation of 1763 [image] |
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an announcement that said all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains belonged to Native Americans |
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a tax on paper items imposed by the British on the colonists |
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a graphic organizer that shows events in the time that they happened |
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militia units formed by the colonists that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
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records or artifacts made by a person who saw or took part in an event |
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records of an event made by someone who was not there at the time |
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the use of scientific ideas and tools to create products which change or improve the standard of living |
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Underground Railroad [image] |
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a system of secret escape routes and contacts that led slaves to free land |
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choosing something that would benefit your own region rather than the country as a whole |
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a person who wanted to end slavery |
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Emancipation Proclamation [image] |
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the document that declared that all slaves in areas fighting against the Union were free |
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Surrender at Appomattox [image] |
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General Lee's surrender to General Grant with the signing of papers ending the Civil War |
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where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
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the rebuilding and reorganizing of The South after the Civil War when the Southern states reentered the Union; 1865-1877 |
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Missouri Compromise [image] |
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a decision that was made in 1819 to keep the number of free states and slave states equal |
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something that is handed down from earlier generations or from the past |
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historical significance [image] |
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events that happened in the past that have relevance to the present |
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