Chapter 3 Review

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  1. 4. American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.
  2. 6. Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  3. 7. of Correspondence, American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another.
  4. 11. Continental Congress, A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
  5. 13. Act, An act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents).
  6. 14. of Independence, The pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776
  7. 16. A small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.
  8. 17. Massacre, A confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
  9. 20. Forge, Functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War
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  1. 1. Jefferson, American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
  2. 2. Those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution and declared the United States of America as an independent nation in July 1776.
  3. 3. George III, King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.
  4. 5. Sense, A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
  5. 8. Acts, Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  6. 9. Civilian colonists who independently organized to form militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War.
  7. 10. Law, The imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory
  8. 12. Tea Party, American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
  9. 15. Acts, Refers to a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.
  10. 18. Adams, American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  11. 19. Branch Petition, Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.