The Road To Revolution (all 4 sections)
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| King George lll | A British Monarch, wanted to enforce the Promclamation and also keep peace with Britain's Native Americans allies.
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| Quartering Act | This was a cost-saving measure that required the colonists to quarter,or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies. General Thomas Gage, commander of these forces, put most of the troops in New York.
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| Revenue | Keeping troops in the colonies would raise that debt even higher. Britain needed more revenue, or income, to meet its expenses. So it attempted to have the colonies pay part of the war debt. It also wanted them to contribute toward the costs of frontier d
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| Sugar Act | This law placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. It also called for strict enforcement of the act and harsh punishment of smugglers.
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| Stamp Act | This law required all legal and commercial documents
to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. All diplomas, contracts, and wills had to carry a stamp.
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| Patrick Henry | a member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, called for resistance to the tax.
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| Boycott | A boycott is refusal to buy.
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| Sons Of Liberty | Many Sons of Liberty were lawyers,
merchants, and craftspeople—the colonists
most affected by the Stamp Act. These
groups staged protests against the act.
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| Crispus Attacks | Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African American
and Native American
ancestry, was an early hero of
America’s struggle for freedom.
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| Townshend Acts | The first of the Townshend Acts suspended New York’s assembly until New Yorker's agreed to provide housing for the troops.
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| Samuel Adams | a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty. Adams
urged colonists to continue to resist British controls.
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| Boston Massarce | A fight broke out, and the
soldiers began firing. Attucks and four laborers were killed.
The Sons of Liberty called the shooting the Boston Massacre. They
said that Attucks and the four others had given their lives for freedom.
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| John Adams | , a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams, defended
them in court. Adams was criticized for taking the case.
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| Committee of Correspondence | These groups exchanged letters on
colonial affairs. Before long, committees throughout Massachusetts were
corresponding with one another and with committees in other colonies.
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| Boston Tea Party | On the evening of December 16, 1773,
a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded three tea ships
docked in Boston Harbor. One of the men, George Hewes, a Boston
shoemaker, later recalled the events.
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| Militia | The militia was a force of armed civilians
pledged to defend their community.
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| Minuteman | About one-third of the Lexington
militia were Minutemen, trained to be “ready to act at a minute’s
warning.” Everyone had heard the news—the British were coming!
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| Intolerable Acts | In 1774, Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the
Massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies. The
British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harsh that
the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
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| First ContinentalCongress | At this meeting, called the First Continental
Congress, delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the
Intolerable Acts were repealed. They also called on each colony to begin
training troops. Georgia agreed to be a part of the actions.
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| Paul Revere | a Boston silversmith, and a second messenger, William Dawes, were charged with spreading the news about British troop movements.
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| Lexington and Concord | d were the first battles of the
Revolutionary War. As Ralph Waldo Emerson later wrote,
colonial troops had fired the “shot heard ’round the world.” Americans
would now have to choose sides and back up their political opinions by
force of arms.
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| Loyalists | Those who supported the British were called Loyalists.
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| Patriots | Those who sided with the rebels were Patriots.
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| Ethan Allen | Ethan Allen led this band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys.
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| Second Continental Congress | on May 10, the Second Continental Congress began meeting
in Philadelphia. Delegates included John and Samuel Adams, John
Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Patrick Henry
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| Continental Army | They agreed to form the Continental Army. Washington, who was
from Virginia, was chosen as its commanding general. He had served as
a colonial officer with the British during the French and Indian War.
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| Benedict Arnold | He was an officer who had
played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga.
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| Declaration of Independence | They did, however, appoint
a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence.
The committee included Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger
Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson.
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| Thomas Jefferson | The group chose Jefferson to compose the Declaration. Two reasons for selecting Jefferson were that he was an excellent writer and that he came from Virginia.
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