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Declaration of Independence

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Civil Power   The power of the people over military people  
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The Boston Tea Party   Held to protest the passage of the Tea Act 0f 1773  
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The intolerable Acts   Closed the port of Boston  
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Declaration of Independence   First proclamation of freedom  
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Olive Branch Petition   Another attempt by colonists to make peace  
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Thomas Paine   Wrote Common Sense  
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Lexington   Where the shot heard round the world was fired  
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Battle of bunmker Hill   Fought at Breed's Hill  
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Samuel Adams   Called the ring leader of the revolution  
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John Hancock   President of the Second Continental Congress  
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John Adams   Refused to write the declaration  
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Patrick Henry   Said, "Taxation without representation is tyranny"  
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Richard Henry Lee   Made a resolution declaring colonies free and independent  
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Crispus Attacks   First African American killed in the defense of liberty  
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Charles Townsend   Authored the Townsend Acts  
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George the III   King of England during the war  
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Thomas Jefferson   Main author of the Declaration  
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Cesar Rodney   Cancer stricken delegate from Delaware  
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"massacre"   Used as propaganda to enhance the views of a specific event  
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Unalienable rights   Rights provided in the Declaration of Independence  
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