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what things were included in state constitutions? |
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-Bill of rights -principle of popular sovereignty(people vote) -rules for future state government |
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what was the purpose of the Treaty of Paris of 1783? |
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-end of the revolutionary War? -US got all land in North America that had belonged to Britain. |
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
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Name two significant British victories during the Revolutionary War. |
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Name three significant American victories during the Revolutionary War. |
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-Trenton -Saratoga -Yorktown |
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American general who got all the credit for the victory at Saratoga. |
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1st commander in chief of the continental army. |
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Led the French fleet in blocking Cornwallis's escape at yorktown. |
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Prussian general who trained American soldiers at Valley Forge. |
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A leader of the sons of liberty. |
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Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga. |
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Rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning people that the British were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord. |
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Powerful speaker who said,"give me liberty, or give me death..." |
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British John Burgoyne's nickname |
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Britian's response to the Boston Tea Party |
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Where more americans died than in all battles of the Revolution combined. |
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Law that allowed the East India Company to sell the tea directly to the colonists |
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Law that forced colonists to provide housing for the British Soldiers. |
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Traitor who secretly offered to turn West Point over to the British. |
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British officer who surendered at Yorktown |
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Where Washington and his troops spent the winter 1777-1778 |
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Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine which convinced many people to want to break away from Britian |
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Organization originally formed to protest the Stamp Act. |
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Nickname for the volunteer soldiers in the Massachusetts who were ready to fight at a moment's notice |
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