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| What is the name of the document that declared America would be independent? |
Declaration Of Independence |
| When people fight to replace one government with another (p. 115) |
revolution |
| Money the government collects from people (p.115) |
tax |
| People who act or speak for a larger group (p. 115) |
representatives |
| When people stop buying a product to protest something (p. 116) |
boycott |
| A word that means something is unfair and should not be allowed (p. 117) |
intolerable |
| A group of representatives who meet to work out a problem. (p. 117) |
congress |
| Freedom (p. 117) |
Independence |
| Colonists who wanted to break away from England and rule themselves (p. 117) |
Patriots |
| Colonists who stayed loyal to England (p. 117) |
Loyalists |
| A set of written laws(P.120) |
constitution |
| Big guns that can shoot large shells and balls across long distances.(p.120) |
cannons |
| To give up (p. 121) |
surrender |
| A long rod used to push cannonballs into a cannon (p. 121) |
rammer |
| An Announcement(p. 122) |
declaration |
| An agreement or promise (p. 124) |
oath |
| A group of ships that block other ships from sailing in and out of a harbor. The British soldiers set up one of these in Charleston harbor.(p. 124) |
blockade |
| Someone who acts against his country (p.124) |
traitor |
| Giving your enemy the chance to surrender or give up (p.124) |
quarter |
| A group of men who fight together (p. 125) |
militia |
| To plan to cause harm (p. 127) |
threaten |
| brave (p.131) |
heroic |
| A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides (p.133) |
peninsula |
| A hero called the Gamecock because he fought so fiercely (p.125) |
Thomas Sumter |
| A hero called the Swamp Fox because he traveled through swamps, attacking the British at night and then disappearing(p.126) |
Francis Marion |
| A hero wo helped Daniel Morgan lead a group of Patriots in the Battle of Cowpens and helped win the Battle of Fort Moultrie. He was called the Wizard Owl. |
Andrew Pickens |
| The only U.S. President born in SC. He was 13 when he helped a Patriot militia. (p.132) |
Andrew Jackson |
| The British taxed many everyday things without letting the colonists ___________ on these taxes. (p.115) |
vote |
| The colonists protested the taxes by boycotting the products that were taxed and by _____________ the English tea into the harbor. (p.116) |
dumping |
| The British the colonists for the Boston Tea Party by closing ______________ _______________ and by taking away power from the colonist leaders in Massachusetts.(p.117) |
Boston Harbor |
| The thirteen colonies decided to meet together to discuss their problems with the British. The meeting was called the ________ __________ ___________. (p.117) |
First Continental Congress |
| The backcountry settlers were not worried about taxes on everyday things. They needed help to protect their homes from the _____________ ______________.(p.119) |
Native Americans |
| Backcountry settlers wanted leaders of the colony to set up courts and _______ to stop the people doing crimes.(p.119) |
jails |
| Backcountry settlers wanted ___________ to be built for their children.(p.119) |
schools |
| At the Battle of Fort Moultrie the British had to give up because the British cannonballs bounced off the soft ___________ logs that made up the walls of the fort. (p.121) |
palmetto |
| The Declaration of Independence explained to the whole world the _________ why the colonists wanted to be free.(p.122) |
reasons |
| When the people of Charlestown heard about the Declaration of Independence they held a big celebration and the Patriots _________ through town. (p.123) |
paraded |