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Who is Patrick Henry?
This famous figure said "give me liberty, or give me death.
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What is The Tea Act?
This law granted The East India Company the right to sell tea to the colonies.
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What is the Shot heard around the World?
The confrontation in the town of Lexington became known as what?
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What is Virginia?
Jamestown the first permanent English settlement was founded in this colony.
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Who is Thomas Paine?
In his pamphlet Common Sense, this famous figure states that citizens should make their own laws.
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Who is George Washington?
He was made commander of the Continental Army.
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What is the Sugar Act?
This law taxed the colonist 3 cents on a sweetner
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What is the Boston Massacre?
This conflict led to five colonists being killed after they reportedly threw snowballs at British soldeirs
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What is a plantation?
A large farmed is often called this?
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What are the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
These are the rights that are unalienable and all men have and were influenced by John Locke
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Who is Benedict Arnold?
He betrayed the colonies and went to the British side and then died alone and unrecognized.
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What is the Quartering Act?
The law allowed British Soldiers to stay in the houses of the colonies?
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What is the Battle of Trenton?
George Washington led his men through the snow in this famous surprise attack.
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What is tobacco?
What was the number one crop grown in the southern colonies?
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Who are the loyalists?
This group felt that the colonists did not need independence.
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Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This future President was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
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What is the stamp Act?
This law required a .... on every piece of paper
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What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This battle became the turning point of the war when it convinced the French to join the War?
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What is indentured servant and slaves?
They were the two type of labor systems in the Southern Colonies?
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What is the treaty of 1783?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War?
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Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This delegate was sent to France to try to convince the French to join the Colonies fight against Britain.
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What are the intolerable Acts?
These were a series of laws that violated the rights of the colonists?
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What is the French and Indian War?
Although the British won this war, the colonists were the ones who suffered when they were heavily taxed to pay for it
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What are cash crops?
Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo are all crops that made profits, they are also known as this...
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When is Mr. Rodriguez's Birthday?
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