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- 2. the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19,1781
- 3. officially ending the American Revolutionary War
- 4. an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America
- 6. a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
- 10. chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory
- 12. compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives
- 13. a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies
- 15. pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
- 16. included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War
- 17. agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution
- 18. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
- 19. armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades
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- 1. pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 5. required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
- 7. were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
- 8. a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
- 9. was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America
- 11. was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763
- 14. an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States