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| Done to protest the tea tax and the tea monopoly by the East India company |
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| Laws passed to punish Boston citizens |
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| Colony representatives sent a petition to Parliment stating their rights and beliefts |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| This fighting is considered the beginning of the American Revolution |
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| Asked Native American allies to help them |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| British won, but the fight proved the colonists would be hard to beat |
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| The King hired German Hessian soldiers to fight against the cononists |
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| A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage colonists to declare their independence from Britain |
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| Thomas Jefferson was the chief writer |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| The Declaration of Independence was written when? |
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| Women served as spies, cooked, sewed and performed other duties during what time |
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| Americans and the Revolution |
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| British Army was larger, better trained and had more supplies for what? |
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| Final Battle of the Revolution in which the colonists won |
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| Officially ended the American Revolution |
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| What were the effects of the war? |
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| A full time army was established |
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| What was the first written plan of government for the US? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| Daniel Shays and other former continental army soldiers tried to close the Massachusetts courts so they would not lose their farms during what rebellion? |
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| A plan to measure and divide western lands was called what? |
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| Representatives decided to create a new constitution based on a federal system |
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| Constitutional Convention |
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| Who is known as the father of the Constitution? |
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| Guarantees and protects the rights of the people |
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| Who proposed the Great Compromise? |
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| A system that gives each branch of government different powers so they all can watch over the others |
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