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- 1. members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American Revolutionary War.
- 5. The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States.
- 6. marked the start of the American War of Independence
- 7. The port of Yorktown, which remains the seat of government, was the site of the final battle of the American Revolution where on October 19, 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British Army to the combined American-French forces under Washington and Rochambeau.
- 8. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.
- 11. formalized France's financial and military support of the revolutionary government in America.
- 13. The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe, especially Western Europe, in the 17th and 18th centuries, with global influences and effects
- 14. The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles
- 18. colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War
- 19. large companies that controlled an industry or a sector
- 20. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. Thomas Jefferson.
- 21. Americans who elected not to choose a side
- 22. ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
- 24. an insurrection by Patriots in the 13 colonies against British rule, resulting in American independence.
- 26. colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution
- 27. a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
- 30. The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
- 31. to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War
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- 2. a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
- 3. lawyer, orator, and statesman whose career spanned the founding of the United States
- 4. commander in chief of the British army in North America (1776–78)
- 9. ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
- 10. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776John - among the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the 17th century
- 12. the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
- 15. rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away
- 16. British army officer who served as a general during the Revolutionary War
- 17. served as the first president of the United States, but he also commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution
- 23. among the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the 17th century
- 25. an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.
- 28. freedom limited by the need for order in society
- 29. English-American writer and political pamphleteer