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Title: Boston Tea Party


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Boston Tea Party
  • Led to the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774

2
Pennsylvania
  • Site of a colony founded by the Quakers

3
Samuel de Champlain
  • A French explorer who set up the trading post of
    Quebec

4
Battle of Saratoga
  • Convinced French to provide aid to the Americans

5
The Stamp Act
  • Passed by the British in an effort to raise money

6
Indentured servants
  • Worked to pay for their passage to America

7
Mayflower Compact
  • Set up a democratic civil government in Plymouth

8
Lexington
  • shot heard round the world was fired here

9
Thomas Paine
  • Called for the complete separation from Britain

10
Benjamin Franklin
  • Famous American inventor

11
John Winthrop
  • Led the group of Puritans who set up the colony
    of Massachusetts

12
Treaty of Paris
  • Recognized the United States as an independent
    nation

13
militia
  • Group of citizen soldiers

14
Boston Massacre
  • Killed five colonists on March 5, 1770

15
Propriety colony
  • Owned by an individual or a small group of people

16
Slave codes
  • Strict laws governing the behavior and punishment
    of enslaved Africans

17
Roanoke
  • Site of the Lost Colony

18
Declaration of Independence
  • Approved by Continental Congress on July 4, 1776

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Subsistence farmers
  • They produced just enough to feed their families

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Olive Branch Petition
  • Asked King George 3rd to protect the colonists
    rights
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