American Revolution

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  1. 1. Protest on British tea. Colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped over 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
  2. 3. British dominance in North America after the Treaty of Paris (1763), where France ceded most of its North American territory to Britain. Britain became in debt and began taxing heavily on the colonists.
  3. 5. American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
  4. 8. First official battle in the American Revolution. The British won in Lexington and Colonists won in Concord
  5. 9. Forbade British colonists from settling on lands, designating that territory as "Indian Reserve" and restricting land purchases from Native Americans to only be made through the British Crown
  6. 11. served as the second President of the United States
  7. 13. Also known as coercive acts were made to make and force colonists to follow the laws.
  8. 15. British soldiers stayed in colonists homes and eat their food
  9. 16. a founding document of the United States that established the country's independence from Great Britain
  10. 17. helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention
  11. 18. Unfair taxing of British tea benefiting the British and monopolizing British tea.
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  1. 2. a secret group of American colonists who protested British taxation and rule of the 13 North American colonies
  2. 4. British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people and wounding six others
  3. 6. led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, helped create the U.S. Constitution, and served as the first president of the United States
  4. 7. Taxing on imported goods(materials brought in)
  5. 10. Required colonists to pay a tax on all legal and official papers and publications, including newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
  6. 12. a war fought by the American colonists against the British government, where the colonists decided to fight for their freedom and create their own country, the United States of America, by breaking away from British rule
  7. 14. Taxing of sugar and molasses, along with other items high in sugar such as wine and rum