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Boston Tea Party Led to the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774
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Pennsylvania Site of a colony founded by the Quakers
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Samuel de Champlain A French explorer who set up the trading post of Quebec
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Battle of Saratoga Convinced French to provide aid to the Americans
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The Stamp Act Passed by the British in an effort to raise money
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Indentured servants Worked to pay for their passage to America
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Mayflower Compact Set up a democratic civil government in Plymouth
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Lexington “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired here
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Thomas Paine Called for the complete separation from Britain
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Benjamin Franklin Famous American inventor
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John Winthrop Led the group of Puritans who set up the colony of Massachusetts
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Treaty of Paris Recognized the United States as an independent nation
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militia Group of citizen soldiers
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Boston Massacre Killed five colonists on March 5, 1770
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Propriety colony Owned by an individual or a small group of people
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Slave codes Strict laws governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans
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Roanoke Site of the “Lost Colony”
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Declaration of Independence Approved by Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
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Subsistence farmers They produced just enough to feed their families
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Olive Branch Petition Asked King George 3 rd to protect the colonists’ rights
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