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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Position in Society: Born in a rural English village to Quaker parents Many jobs including a corset maker and an excise man collecting taxes on liquor Paine got into politics after witnessing injustices while working as a tax collector -
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French and Indian War
France and England each wanted to control European trade and North America Both sides had America Indian allies who would raid each Other's settlement both were competing for the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes. -
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Treaty of Paris
The 1763 treaty of Paris Ended the French And Indian war. The French transferred its claims west of Missippi to Spain and ceded its territory east of the Mississippi to the British. The Treaties of Easton and Paris limited colonization to the Eastern seaboard. -
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763, signed by King George III of England, Prohibited any English settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. It requires those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native America. -
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Sons and Daughters of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a group of patriots who formed a rebellion against England. They told colonists to boycott taxed goods. The Sons of Liberty also helped by tellin colonists to drink something else besides tea or they created their own tea from green leaves, some colonists to drink something else besides tea or they created their own tea from green leaves, some colonists frank coffee. The Daughters Of Liberty sewen their own Clothing instead of buying them. -
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Stamp Act
The stamp Act Happens when Britain sets a tax required a stamp on all public documents or legal documents it said they had to pay a tax on printed materials such as newspapers. magazines and legal documents. The colonists did not like having these tax places on them and led to unrest in the colonies. And the act replaid on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience. -
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Committees of Correspondence
The committees wrote letters and pamphlets to spread the alarm whenever Britain tried to enforce unpopular acts of parliament. In this way, the committees helped unite the colonists against Britain. -
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Intolerable Acts
It Was the patriot's name for a set of new laws passed by the British after the Boston tea party. They were meant to punish the colonists for their defiance.series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
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Declaration of Independence
The main writer was Thomas Jefferson. The declaration of Independence was written to tell the whole world that the United States was now a free and independent country, free from the rule of King George II and Great Britain. -
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Battle of Trenton
George Washingtons' army surprise attacks groups of bru=itish and German mercenaries outside of Trenton Early victory for the Americans and keeps hope alive that the underdog Americans can win the Revolution. -
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Battle of Saratoga
The saratoga was a period od bottles that culminated in the battle of Saratoga and the surrender of British General John Burgoyne. T, his decisive victory by the Americans was a turning point of the revolutionary war. -
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winter camp at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the third of the eight American winter encampments during the Revolutionary war. Valley Forge NHP commemorates the encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1994 - 78. General George Washington troops embodied triumph over adversity. Their commitment was a turning point in the American Revolution. -
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American-French alliance
Regarding the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
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Battle of Yorktown
It was the last great battle of the American Revolutionary War. The battle lasted around 20 days. Its where the British government began to consider a peace treaty. -
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Treaty of Paris (1783)
After the revolutionary victory, Great Britain promised to Recognized American independence. Promised to pull troops from the new US soil. By 0783, 20,000 Anglo-Americans settles lived west of Appalachians.