Question 1

Coersive Acts

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The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America, and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773

Question 2

sons of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization of patriots that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight the abuses of taxation by the British government.

Question 3

Neolin

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Neolin (the Delaware Prophet)  Beginning in 1762, Neolin believed that the native people needed to reject European goods and abandon dependency on foreign settlers in order to return to a more traditional lifestyle

Question 4

Cahokia

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with Father Pinet’s mission to vert the Cahokian and Tamaroa Indians to . It is dedicated to the Holy Family. During the next 100 years, Cahokia became one of the largest French colonial towns in the Illinois Country

Question 5

great awakining

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The Great Awakening, called by historians the First Great Awakening, was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s,

Question 6

Middle passage

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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

Question 7

Yeomen

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A yeoman was a social class in late medieval to early modern England. In early recorded uses, a yeoman was an attendant in a noble household;

Question 8

Declatory Act

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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act.

Question 9

pueblo revolt

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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 — also known as Popé's Rebellion — was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers

Question 10

Dunmores proclamation

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poclamation issued offering freedom to slaves who fought for the King

Question 11

george whitefeild

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was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies.

Question 12

one-drop rule

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asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry ("one drop" of African blood) is considered to be black

Question 13

proclamation of 1763

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at te French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

Question 14

pequot war

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The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett 700 died

Question 15

metacoms war

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was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78.

Question 16

continental paper

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The Continental Congress also issued paper money during the Revolution, known as Continental currency, to fund the war effort. Both state and Continental currency depreciated rapidly, becoming practically worthless by the end of the war.

Question 17

Sullivan expedition

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led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton was an extended systematic military campaign against Loyalists and the four Amerindian nations of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Question 18

Yorktown

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was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis

Question 19

joseph brant

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Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution

Question 20

salutary neglect

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Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy,to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries

Question 21

powhatan confederacy

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The Powhatan are said to have been driven N to Virginia by the Spanish, where their chief, Powhatan's father, subjugated five other Virginia tribes.

Question 22

long peace

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A phrase meant to express the length of the peace in Europe since 1945 is "It has been 2,000 years since an army has not crossed the Rhine for so long a time."

Question 23

continental association

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was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain.

Question 24

Valley Forge

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Valley Forge was the site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of the Continental Army.

Question 25

war of southern malitias

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a lot

Question 26

new england town meeting

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The New England Town Meetings are open forums that promote democracy.

Question 27

remember the ladies

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Abigail Adams urges husband to "remember the ladies"

Question 28

lexington and concord

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

Question 29

treaty of paris 1763

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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France,

Question 30

treaty of paris 1783

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Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain on April 15, 1783. On September 3, 1783,

Question 31

virtual representation

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Virtual representation stated that the members of Parliament, including the Lords and the Crown-in-Parliament, reserved the right to speak for the interests of all British subjects,

Question 32

republican idealology

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one in which they knew their sacrifices would be acknowledged and appreciated by future generations of Americans.

Question 33

enclosure

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is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner,

Question 34

iroquoia

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are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the "Iroquois League" and later as the "Iroquois Confederacy", and to the English as the "Five Nations"

Question 35

Louisburg

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Winner: The British American force.
11,000 British regular troops and 200 American Rangers.

Question 36

battle of bunker hill

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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.The colonists retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, leaving the British in control of the Peninsula.

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