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What is a boycott?
When no one buys a certain product on purpose-- works best with more people.
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What is West Point?
It was the fortified site of the army during the Revolutionary War.
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Who is Ben Franklin?
He was an inventor, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and organized the Albany Plan of Union.
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What is the Quartering Act?
The Act that said that the colonists had to provide food and shelter for the British soldiers.
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What is the Molasses Act?
A tax in 1733 on molasses and sugar.
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Who is Squanto?
He was the Wompanog Native American who assisted the colonists after their first winter-- Thanksgiving.
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What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The battle that was the turning point in the war.
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What are conquistadors?
Spanish conquerors
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Who is Pocahontas?
A Powhatan Indian girl, married John Rolfe, helped create peace between the Indians and the colonists.
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What is the middle passage?
The part of the triangular trade that transported slaves.
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What are the Committees of Correspondence?
These were the meetings that were quietly created right before the revolution, so the colonists could plan their responses to the British's moves.
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What is commercial farming?
Farming, so that you can sell what you produce.
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What is pacifism?
The belief that it is wrong to use violence/war to settle arguments.
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What is salutary neglect?
When you know that the law is being broken, but you don't do anything about it.
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Who is Sam Adams?
The biggest leader of the Sons of Liberty and he promoted non-violent acts of freedom. He played a major role in the independence.
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What is subsistence farming?
Farming just enough to survive.
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Who is James Otis?
He was a lawyer in Massachusetts, and had strong views against the British policies.
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What is theocracy?
The Puritan government-- God is above all.
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What are minutemen?
The colonial "army" men that had to be ready to fight whenever.
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What is the Sugar Act?
This act replace the Molasses Act to just a tea on sugar, the British lowered the tax hoping there would be less smuggling.
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What are Continentals (currency)?
Worth practically nothing, no one accepted it in the colonies, the colonial soldiers were paid in it.
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What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Ben Franklin wrote this document, it united the Colonists and the Native Americans-- it was a peace treaty.
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What is the Treaty of Paris?
This document ended the War with England on one side, and America + all its allies on the other side.
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Who is John Adams?
The first vice president of the US, and the second president.
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What is the Tea Act?
Tax that was created to help the British East India company make money-- the British allowed BEI to sell non-taxed tea.
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