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C1-$100 Book Of Acts Book Of Acts - $100 This Act generated the most protest in the colonies Stamp Act
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C1-$200 Book Of Acts Book Of Acts - $200 This was the first British law intended to raise revenues in the colonies Sugar Act
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C1-$300 Book Of Acts Book Of Acts - $300 As a result of American opposition to this Act, British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order Townshend Act
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C1-$400 Book Of Acts Book Of Acts - $400 The most drastic measure of the these Acts was the Boston Port Act. Intolerable Acts
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C1-$500 Book Of Acts Book Of Acts - $500 These Acts asserted Parliaments’ absolute authority over the American Colonies Declaratory Acts
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C2-$100 Battles Battles - $100 The Revolutionary War began with fighting in New England; then in 1777, 1778, fighting was concentrated in __________; and the fighting concluded in __________. the middle colonies, the South
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C2-$200 Battles Battles - $200 In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America’s military by defeating the ____ at Trenton and the ___ at Princeton Hessians; British
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C2-$300 Battles Battles - $300 The basic strategy of the British in 1777 was to try to isolate ____ New England
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C2-$400 Battles Battles - $400 France waited to give open assistance to America until after the victory at ____ because the French thought the colonists’ chances of winning slim before the victory. Saratoga
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C2-$500 Battles Battles - $500 He was the leader of the army that lost the Battle of Yorktown Lord Cornwallis
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C3-$100 US US - $100 The first to sign the Declaration of Independence was ____ John Hancock
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C3-$200 US US - $200 A pamphleteer who first organized committees to exchange ideas and information on resisting British policy Samuel Adams
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C3-$300 US US - $300 A Massachusetts politician who opposed the moderates’ solution to the imperial crisis at the First Continental Congress John Adams
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C3-$400 US US - $400 A radical group that favored liberty and was influential in staging the Boston Tea Party Sons of Liberty
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C3-$500 US US - $500 He was a casualty of the Boston Massacre. The first Afro- American man killed in the Revolution. Crispus Attucks
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C4-$100 Continentals Continentals - $100 As the War for Independence began, the colonies had the advantage of ______ many outstanding civil and military leaders.
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C3-200 Continentals Continentals - $200 The resolution that “These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states...” was introduced into the Second Continental Congress by this Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee
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C3-$300 Continentals Continentals - $300 A firebrand of the Revolution, he refused to serve as Virginia’s representative at the Constitutional Convention Patrick Henry
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C3-$400 Continentals Continentals - $400 French officer who ultimately secured France’s assistance for the Colonials Marquis de Lafayette
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C3-$500 Continentals Continentals - $500 A major purpose of ___was to explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revolted Declaration of Independence
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C4-$100 Gov. Gov. - $100 This called for a complete boycott of British goods. The First Continental Congress
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C4-$200 Gov. Gov. - $200 This final initiative by the Continental Congress professed loyalty to the British Crown Olive Branch Petition
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C4-$300 Gov. Gov. - $300 In a ____, power comes from the people themselves. Republic
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C4-$400 Gov. Gov. - $400 When the ______ chose George Washington to lead the colonial army it was largely political matter. Second Continental Congress
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C4-$500 Gov. Gov. - $500 This in 1783 stipulated the British to recognize U.S. independence, the boundaries of the U.S. were from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River between the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida and that Americans cease persecution of Loyalists Treaty of Paris
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C4-$100 Plethora Plethora - $100 Hired soldiers that the Declaration of Independence rails against mercenaries
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C4-$200 Plethora Plethora - $200 When Parliament passed these, colonists suspected that it was a trick to get them to violate their principle of “No taxation without representation. Tea Acts
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C4-$300 Plethora Plethora - $300 They believed that a country’s economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury. Mercantilists
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C4-$400 Plethora Plethora - $400 As the War for Independence began, ____ had the advantage of overwhelming national wealth and naval power. Britain
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C4-$500 Plethora Plethora - $500 These were beneficial to colonists because they were paid subsidies for producing ships’ parts and stores, tobacco growers were guaranteed a monopoly of the British market for their crop and colonial trading ships were protected by the Royal Navy. Navigation Laws
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