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Question	Answer
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