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Sam Adams
Leader of the Sons of Liberty.
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Acts that authorized Parliament to issue taxes on in-demand imports such as glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
The Townshend Acts
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Known for the command " Hold your fire 'till you see the whites of there eyes."
Bunker Hill
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Battles of Lexington and Concord.
First battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Canada to Albany
General John Burgoyne would lead his troops from _______ to _______
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Patrick Henry
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
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Stamp Act
Act that required colonists to pay a tax on printed documents, various licenses, and other goods.
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Valley Forge.
Weather here was very cold. Many people got frostbite.
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Battle of Saratoga
The battle that made the turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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The Mohawk Valley
Lt. Colonel Barry St. Leger would lead his troops down _______________ into Albany.
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King George
British monarch who reigned in the American Revolution.
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Boston Massacre
Four colonists were injured and one colonist was killed at the event.
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Yorktown.
Place in which General Charles Cornwallis surrendered.
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Was the first American victory of the Revolutionary War, and would give the Continental Army much-needed artillery to be used in future battles.
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Hudson River Valley
The purpose of this strategy is to control the ___________ and cut off New England from the rest of the colonies.
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Thomas Paine
Political radical and the author of "Common Sense"
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Angry Bostonians known as the Sons of Liberty boarded a British ship and dumped all of its tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea tax.
Boston Tea Party
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Delaware
Where the Americans attacked the Hessians.
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Yorktown
__________ would be the last major battle of the war.
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It failed Burgoyne and his troops.
Did the Northern Strategy a good plan or did it fail Burgoyne and his troops?
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