Boston Tea Party

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Boston Tea Party

• Led to the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774

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Pennsylvania

• Site of a colony founded by the Quakers

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Samuel de Champlain

• A French explorer who set up the trading post of
  Quebec

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Battle of Saratoga

• Convinced French to provide aid to the Americans

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The Stamp Act

• Passed by the British in an effort to raise money

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Indentured servants

• Worked to pay for their passage to America

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Mayflower Compact

• Set up a democratic civil government in Plymouth

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Lexington

• shot heard round the world was fired here

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Thomas Paine

• Called for the complete separation from Britain

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Benjamin Franklin

• Famous American inventor

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John Winthrop

• Led the group of Puritans who set up the colony
  of Massachusetts

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Treaty of Paris

• Recognized the United States as an independent
  nation

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militia

• Group of citizen soldiers

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Boston Massacre

• Killed five colonists on March 5, 1770

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Propriety colony

• Owned by an individual or a small group of people

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Slave codes

• Strict laws governing the behavior and punishment
  of enslaved Africans

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Roanoke

• Site of the Lost Colony

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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