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  1. 2. Charles - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805), served as a general in the British Army during the American War for Independence. Cornwallis held commands in the colonies throughout the duration of the war and was frequently George Washington's battlefield counterpart.
  2. 5. massacre - On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot into a crowd of rowdy colonists in front of the Custom House on King Street, killing five and wounding six. The Boston Massacre marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly
  3. 8. of Paris (1783) - The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. Based on a1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
  4. 9. - a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
  5. 13. war - The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
  6. 16. Washington - was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire.
  7. 17. of Paris (1763) - ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
  8. 18. contract - A social contract is simple: it's when a group of people agree to give up certain rights and accept a central authority in order to protect their other rights. The social contract is what allows any government to work, but it's important to note that government and a social contract are different things.
  9. 19. Act - sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
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  1. 1. thomas - Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher
  2. 3. rights - those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable
  3. 4. of Alliance - The Treaty of Alliance contained the provisions the U.S. commissioners had originally requested, but also included a clause forbidding either country to make a separate peace with Britain, as well as a secret clause allowing for Spain, or other European powers, to enter into the alliance.
  4. 6. - a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
  5. 7. of independence - The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States.
  6. 10. liberty - Ordered liberty is a concept in political philosophy, where individual freedom is balanced with the necessity for maintaining social order.
  7. 11. - Yorktown is a town in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 195 as of the 2010 census, while York County's population was 66,134 in the 2011 census estimate
  8. 12. tea party - The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  9. 14. - an impartial or unbiased country or person.
  10. 15. of 1763 - prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.