Unit 2 B People and Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
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Thomas Paine | wrote COMMON SENSE
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Samuel Adams | propagandist, created engraving of the Boston Massacre
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Benjamin Franklin | diplomat, wanted central government, supported the Albany Plan of Union
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George Washington | first general of the Continental Army, served in the French & Indian War
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Sons of Liberty | formed by Samuel Adams, stopped enforcement of the Stamp Act
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Second Continental Congress | declared war against Britain
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COMMON SENSE | argued Americans should govern themselves
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Committees of Correspondence | communicated what was happening in Boston to the other colonies
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Radicals | colonists who favored independence
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Loyalists | colonists who were loyal to Britain
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Patriots | Americans who supported the Revolutionary War
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Pacifists | people who opposed war
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propagandist | someone who describes events in a way that promotes his/her beliefs
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Albany Plan of Union | proposal to unite the colonies under a central government
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Treaty of Paris of 1783 | treaty that ended the American Revolution
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mercantilism | theory that a country would prosper if it sold more goods than it bought
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mercenaries | hired soldiers
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localism | the policy of an area acting independently
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taxation without representation | Britain had no right to tax the colonies because the colonies did not have a representative in Parliament, so they said Britain had no right to tax them.
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salutary neglect | If the colonies contributed economically to Britain, Britain would leave them alone.
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virtual representation | used to justify taxing the colonists
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minutemen | soldiers who would fight with little notice
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