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| Two small towns outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired on April 19. |
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| Born 1735, died 1826, an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat, best known as the second president of the United States. |
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| 1722-1803, an American politician, leader in the American Revolution and founder of the Sons of Liberty. |
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| a law that gave land in the Ohio Valley to Quebec in 1774. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| signed in 1776, the document that officially created the seperation between the British Empire and the American Colonists. |
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| Rights you possess just because you are human. According to Jefferson these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as stated in the Declaration of Independence. |
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| A way to explain the relationship between citizens and government. Citizens agree to live by common rules and in exchange governments povide protecton to citizens. |
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| also known as the Age of Reason, an intellectual movement in Europe in the 1700's that sought to understand the power of reason in order to improve society and advance knowledge. |
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| a person who signed an indenture, or an agreement to worj for a master for a period of years. indentured servents were not free until they completed their term of service. |
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| the treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do labor, peple who are denied freedom in this way are called slaves and are said to be enslaved. |
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| a form of government founded on the principle elected individuals representing the people. |
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| a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. |
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| the legends, oral history, music, jokes, popular beliefs, and fairy tales that are traditions of a specific culture. |
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| one ethnic group enslaving another based on a belief of superiority. |
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| a cash crop, grown widely in the American South after the invention of the cotton gin. |
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| a conflict between the British and the French for control of the Ohio Valley, part of a larger, global war between French and Britian empires known as the Seven Year's War. 1750's and 1760's |
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| a term to describe the political upheaval in the last half of the 1700's when the thirteen colonies of British North A,erican banded together to oppose the authority of King George. |
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| one who supports the rebellion of the 13 colonies against the authority of King George III. |
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