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Revolution1
Extra Credit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Townshed Acts | A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on imported goods brought into the British colonies. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| No taxation without representation | A phrase used by the American colonists to show their displeasure about being forced to pay taxes without representation in Parliament. |
| Tea Act | A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1750 that placed a tax on tea. Parliament kept the tea tax even though many colonists boycotted to show that it still had the right to tax the colonists. |
| Sugar Act Congress | Nine colonies sent delegates to New York to discuss the Stamp Act. This was the first time the colonies met to consider acting togeter in protest. |
| Navigation Acts | A series of laws passed by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to ensure that England made money from its colonies' trade. |
| Stamp Act | A law passed in 1765 by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid for it. |
| Olive Branch Petition | A document sent to Britain asking the king to restore harmony between Britain and the colonies. |
| Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which helped convince many Americans that a complete break with Britain was necessary. |
| The Crisis | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which helped influence the Continental Army to keep fighting. |
| Boycott | A refusal to buy; a peaceful protest. |
| Self-determination | The right of a person to decide their future political status in respect to form a government. |
| Minutemen | Companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minute's notice. |
| Bunker Hill | The British had won the Battle of Bunker Hill but at a tremendous cost: more than 1,000 British were killed or wounded, compared with some 400 militia casualities. |
| France/Spain | Foreign countries who allied with the Americans to get their revenge on Britain. |
| General Howe | A British general who won the Battle of Bunker Hill, helped the British take over New York, and invaded Pennsylvania. |
| Abigail Adams | The wife of John Adams who was also an early advocate of women's rights and one of the great letter righters in history. |
| Benedict Arnold | An American general who helped the Continental Army win many major battles, but married a British woman after the battle of Saratoga and betrayed the Americans. |
| Bernando de Galvez | A Spanish general who fought with the Americans to take revenge with Britain and helped extend Spain's empire in North America. |
| Paul Revere | A Patriot who spread the news about the British troops coming to Lexington and Concord. He gets captured by the British on his way to Concord. |
| Thomas Paine | The author of Common Sense and The Crisis. |
| John Adams | A lawyer and cousin of Samual Adams who defended the British in court for the Boston Massacre. |
| German Hessians | Mercenaries from Germany who fought with the British in the American Revolution. |
| Nathanael Green | An American general who had once been a Quaker but because of his belief in fighting against Britain, his church had cast him out. |
| Ethan Allan | An American general who attacked Britain's Fort Ticonderoga on the New York side of Lake Champlain. |
| John Hancock | A Patriot who spread the news about British troop movements in the Battle of Lexington and Concord and also was a part of the First and Second Continental Congress. |
| Benjamin Franklin | An Enlightment Thinker who helped convince the French to fight with the Americans and helped write the Declaration of Independence. |
| Enlightment Thinkers | Americans who started the fight for independence from Britain. |
| Unalienable Rights | The rights that no person can take away from you. They are the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness. |
| 1607 | In 1607, the first permanent English colony, Jamestown, was founded. |
| 1620 | In 1620, the Mayflower Compact was signed, creating self-government and majority rules. |
| 1776 | On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Imdependence was signed, declaring the 13 colonies as independent states of America. |
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