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| what things were included in state constitutions? |
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-Bill of rights
-principle of popular sovereignty(people vote)
-rules for future state government |
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| what was the purpose of the Treaty of Paris of 1783? |
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-end of the revolutionary War?
-US got all land in North America that had belonged to Britain. |
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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
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| Name two significant British victories during the Revolutionary War. |
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| Name three significant American victories during the Revolutionary War. |
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-Trenton
-Saratoga
-Yorktown |
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| American general who got all the credit for the victory at Saratoga. |
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| 1st commander in chief of the continental army. |
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| Led the French fleet in blocking Cornwallis's escape at yorktown. |
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| Prussian general who trained American soldiers at Valley Forge. |
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| A leader of the sons of liberty. |
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| Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga. |
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| Rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning people that the British were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord. |
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| Powerful speaker who said,"give me liberty, or give me death..." |
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| British John Burgoyne's nickname |
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| Britian's response to the Boston Tea Party |
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| Where more americans died than in all battles of the Revolution combined. |
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| Law that allowed the East India Company to sell the tea directly to the colonists |
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| Law that forced colonists to provide housing for the British Soldiers. |
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| Traitor who secretly offered to turn West Point over to the British. |
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| British officer who surendered at Yorktown |
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| Where Washington and his troops spent the winter 1777-1778 |
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| Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine which convinced many people to want to break away from Britian |
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| Organization originally formed to protest the Stamp Act. |
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| Nickname for the volunteer soldiers in the Massachusetts who were ready to fight at a moment's notice |
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