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| Americans who believed they should be independent from Great Britain, they also want to govern themselves |
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| Americans who want to stay loyal to Great Britain |
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| Why did the Americans want to seperate from Great Britain |
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| Americans were angered with the taxes |
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| Why did the population grow from 50,000 to 2 million |
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| before 1763, land of opportunity and for the most part Great Britain allowed Americans to govern themselves. |
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| ordinary citizen starting an army |
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| Who fought the French out of Ohio Valley |
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| George Washington, a volunteer at 22 years old |
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| when was the French and Indian war and how long did it last |
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| What did the French give to Great Britain in the peace treaty |
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| What is the Proclamation 1763 signed by King George III |
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| prevented settlers from moving west where the Indian were. |
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| Prime minister, leader of British Govnt, he proposed the stamp act |
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| Tax on any paper that is purchased |
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| How did the Americans reacted to the stamp act? |
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| The Colonist wrote letters to the parlimant, Loyalist refused to buy stamps, Patriots took a violent actions (mobs) attacked the tax collectors |
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| to take back or cancel a law |
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| what is the Quartering Act 1765? |
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| Colonist require to provide shelter for the British soldiers |
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| What is the Townshed Act and who passed it? |
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| Charlie Townshed also known as Charlie Champagne, British leader. The act taxed on popular items imported from Britain such as glass and tea. |
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| How did Britain enforced the Townshend Act? |
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| 1768 British troops to Boston led by Paul Revere |
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| Who led the Boycott of Townshend Act? |
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| Women who made American goods such as clothes and tea to boycott British goods |
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| When King George repealed the Townshend act he did not want to give up taxing what? |
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| What happened in the Boston Massacre? |
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| people died, mobs threw rocks at soldiers. John Adams a lawyer defended the soldiers on self defense |
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| What did the Tax act in 1773 lead to |
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| What did the Tea Act attempted to do? |
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| Save The British East Tea Company, lower taxes the people did not like how the company monopolize tea |
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| What happened when the tea ships arrived in Boston? |
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| The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians threw the tea in ocean, BOSTON TEA PARTY |
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| After the Boston tea party Lord North was stunned and urged King George to leave or take control of the colonist? What did King George decide to do? |
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| take control and pass a series of of laws known to be the INTOLERABLE ACTS. |
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| How did the Parliment punished Massachusetts |
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| closed boston harbor until tea was paid , government under British control and troops sent to boston to enforce laws |
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| In 1774 the first continental congress met brought together delegates from the colonies and agreed on what? |
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| boycotting the British goods until repeal the intolerable acts. |
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| In case boycotting British goods did not work what did the Americans formed? |
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| volunteers who can attack in 60 seconds |
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| King's Commander of British Troops |
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| General Gage heard about the hidden gun powder and tried to seize it where? |
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| What happened in Lexington (first Blow)? |
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| the British troops were on their way to Concorde and were stopped at Lexington and ended up firing and killing. |
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| After the first blow in Lexington the British troops made it to Concorde (2nd blow), what did the troops do when they weren't able to find gun powder? |
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| tried to burn the town down which led to gun shooting and the troops retreated back to Boston |
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| Sam Adams cousin, a lawyer who defended the soldiers who killed the colonist |
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