Unit 2 Vocabulary Terms- The American Revolution

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  1. 2. a pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine
  2. 5. scientific movement
  3. 7. English philosopher from the Enlightenment period; developed the idea of natural rights and the social contract
  4. 8. an event where colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded three ships and tossed several hundred chests of tea into the harbor in protests against British taxes on tea.
  5. 12. agreement signed on February 6, 1778 between France and the United States, in which each country agreed to help the other defend itself against England
  6. 13. sole control of the supply of a good
  7. 14. riot that occurred in march 3, 1770
  8. 15. "Give me liberty or give me death"
  9. 17. Commander in chief of the British army during the American Revolutionary War.
  10. 19. the last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Yorktown VA, where the British army surrendered.
  11. 20. British law passed in 1756 that imposed a tax on all printed materials; contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War
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  1. 1. first military confrontation of the Revolutionary War; this battle occurred in Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, between colonial minutemen and British soldiers.
  2. 3. colonists who called for independence from Great Britain, during the American Revolution.
  3. 4. colonist who were ready to fight in a minutes notice
  4. 6. a war between France and England
  5. 9. colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain, during the American Revolution. Also known as Tories
  6. 10. the political theory that individuals have undeniable basic rights given to them by nature or God
  7. 11. military general of the American rebel forces; president of the Constitutional Convention and first president of the United States
  8. 16. a person, or a group of people, who remain neutral in foreign affairs
  9. 18. a series of laws passed by the British in 1774 enacted to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party