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an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism"
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A founding father of the Untited States who was very involved in many things such as writing and math.
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Patriot who was known for the help she gave members of the continental army during the Revolutionary War.
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George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.
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John Hancock was a merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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He was king of Great Britain and Ireland until the union of the two countries and then he was king of Great Britain and the united Kingdom until his death.
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British Army officer and colonial administartor who was defeated in the Battle of Yorktown
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Orginally an American general but defected to the British army. He made a plan to surrender Amercian alnd tot he british, but the Amercans discovered hsi plan and he was commsioned into the british army as a brigadier general.
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A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, known for his successful command in the Southern Campaign.
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American founding father and principal author of The Delaration of Independence
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Henry Knox was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, and also served as the first United States Secretary
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A French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States in the American Revolutionary War.
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The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War
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which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain and increased colonists concerns with thr British parliment's intentions
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an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown.
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an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
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A series of taxes, in which, most were repealed except the tax on tea which led to the Boston tea Party and the American Revolution.
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in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities.
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Sadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The only remaining tax from the townshand acts that led to the Boston tea party.
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A political protest where Americans dumped British Tea overboard the cargo ships.
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The American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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A eeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies to discuss colonial rights. was determined that if those rights were not met, there woudl be another meeting.
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The batlle where the Patriots used Guerilla Warfare and afterwards gained France as an alliance which gave the colonies much more confidence. The British won.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The british won.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain.
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announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey
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Despite the battle's small numbers, the American victory inspired rebels in the colonies. With the success of the revolution in doubt a week earlier, the army had seemed on the verge of collapse. The dramatic victory inspired soldiers to serve longer and attracted new recruits to the ranks
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The British defeated the Americans and forced them to withdraw toward the American capital of Philadelphia.
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The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
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Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter ring the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
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The siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American theater and the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army happened.
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negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
