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People

Why did the British tax the

colonists?

why

smuggling

Colonial smuggling and piracy

Used to prevent smuggling

smuggl

Stamp taxes, 1765

1765 Stamp Tax,

required gold and silver use to pay

debts

Colonists’ reason for not paying

taxes

taxes

Taxation, with-out representation

Taxation, with-out

fair representation

Colonists who opposed efforts to

fight Britain

Mm resist

Pro-British Loyalists

pro-British Loyalists

Led protests against British

policies

pain

Thomas Paine’s bold call for

independence

Paine

Thomas Paine’s attempt to rekindle

patriotic fire

Pain

Encouraged new communication between

colonists, authoring

•Common Sense, 1776• the Rights of Man

• Age of Reason, 1795

comm

How did the colonists protest

the Tea Act?

protest

How did the colonists protest

the Tea Act?

Bos mass

Explain the Boston Massacre

Bos massacre

Britain’s response to the Boston Tea

Party

tea

Repealed this act due to colonial

boycotts

tea

Stamp taxes, 1765

1765 Stamp Tax,

required gold and silver use to pay

debts

Written by Thomas Jefferson

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Declaration of Independence,

1776

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1st Continental Congress decision

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George Washington appointed to lead the Continental Army and

adopted Declaration of Indep, 1775

George Washington appointed to lead the 1st Continental Army and

Declaration of Independence adopted

Where first shots were fired

1st shots

Lexington Concord, 1775

1775 Lexington-Concord,

Bunker-Hill

Describe Washington’s Trenton army

army

Minute-men

Minute-men and Paul Revere

Describe the role of women

(3 things)

women

Farming, medical support, soldiers

Supplies, medics and soldiers

Where Washington’s army

spent the winter

vforge

Describe Valley Forge

vforg

Where Patriots stored war supplies

Storag?

Turning point of the war

Turn pt

Monmouth, 1778 vforg

Valley Forge winter, Monmouth

1778 battle

Won battles at sea for Patriots

sea

John Paul Jones, U.S.S.

Constitution (brigantine)

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Country that helped Patriots win

the war

Franc

After this battle, French-American alliance formed

Fr-battl

Battle of Saratoga

Saratoga, war campaign turning

point, 1777

Defeated the British in the Southwest

S/W

French General Lafayette, Charlston

Last battle of the American

Revolutionary War

Last battl york

Yorktown battle 1781, John Jay Treaty of Paris

1783

Organized by 2nd Continental

Congress

cong2

Us const James madison

James Madison, U.S. Constitution

ratification

Sent to Parliament by 2nd Continental

Congress

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Thomas jefferson

Ambassador Thomas Jefferson

Forbade colonists to settle west of the

Appalachian mountains

law

Northwest Ordinance, 1787

NW Ord 1787

Make your wager

List the 4 parts of the Intolerable

Acts

Stamp tax anexationtownshend act,

customs law enforcement british troop quartering,