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| 5013807883 | 1st Continental Congress | Meeting during which the colonists wrote the Suffolk Resolves to protest the Intolerable Acts & agreed to a full boycott of goods, but rejected the Galloway Plan. |  | 0 |
| 5013807884 | 2nd Continental Congress | Meeting during which colonists chose Washington as Commander in Chief, wrote the Olive Branch Petition and appointed a committee to write the Dec. of Independence. |  | 1 |
| 5013807885 | Articles of Confederation | This document was the first constitution of the United States that set up a gov't that ultimately proved to be too weak and unable to collect taxes or settle disputes. |  | 2 |
| 5013807886 | Battle of Lexington & Concord | Impromptu skirmish between British and rebel forces that broke out as the former attempted to arrest 2 leaders and seize munitions, but suffered heavy casualties. |  | 3 |
| 5013807887 | Battle of Saratoga | Decisive military battle during the second phase of the Revolutionary War that ultimately convinced the French to ally with the Americans against the British. |  | 4 |
| 5013807888 | Battle of Yorktown | Decisive military battle that ended the third phase of the Revolutionary War, with French assistance, that convinced a majority of Whigs to move to surrender. |  | 5 |
| 5013807889 | Boston Massacre | Impromptu conflict between the British and colonists that resulted in the death of five colonists resulting in a mistakenly heard order to open fire. |  | 6 |
| 5013807890 | Boston Tea Party | Action taken by the Sons of Liberty to protest a British law that granted the East India Company a monopoly over a particular good - punished by Coercive Acts. |  | 7 |
| 5013807891 | Boycott | The act of refusing to buy goods or services from a particular provider or at all in the attempt to protest or make a greater political statement. | 8 | |
| 5013807892 | Committees of Correspondence | Groups of Sons of Liberty supporters spread throughout the English colonies who spread news and propaganda surrounding protest actions quickly and efficiently. | 9 | |
| 5013807893 | Common Sense | Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in which he makes the argument that revolt is the only natural course of action, arguing against monarchies and island empires. |  | 10 |
| 5013807894 | Declaration of Independence | Jefferson largely authored this document that established that the British had violated their social contract with America, supported by a list of grievances. |  | 11 |
| 5013807895 | French and Indian War | Global conflict between the British and French empires that originated in the Ohio River Valley that ultimately led to the latter losing all North American land claims. |  | 12 |
| 5013807896 | Intolerable Acts | Parliamentary legislation that was the combination of the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act that closed the port of Boston and took away jury trials and the charter. | 13 | |
| 5013807897 | Loyalists | Group of people who were never convinced by the arguments of the rebels and whose property, life and liberty were taken away in many cases by colonists. |  | 14 |
| 5013807898 | Navigation Acts | Laws whose intent was to reinforce the system of mercantilism by requiring that certain goods be shipped only to Britain and only on board British ships. |  | 15 |
| 5013807899 | Pontiac's Rebellion | Series of uprisings that took place directly after the French and Indian War as a unified group of natives attacked and seized nearly a dozen Northwest forts. | 16 | |
| 5013807900 | Proclamation of 1763 | Order issued by the king following the French and Indian War that forbid any colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid native conflict. |  | 17 |
| 5013807901 | Quartering Act | Piece of legislation that required colonists to house and pay to sustain British soldiers who were stationed in North America in an attempt to preserve order. | 18 | |
| 5013807902 | Samuel Slater | This person is known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" who memorized factory plans from England to build his first ever mill in the U.S. in Rhode Island. |  | 19 |
| 5013807903 | Shay's Rebellion | Name given to the uprising in western Massachusetts led by a small white farmer unhappy by an unresponsive gov't that led to the downfall of the Articles of Confederation. |  | 20 |
| 5013807904 | Sons of Liberty | Group of rebels that protested British legislation and controls that was first organized by Samuel Adams, as seen in the Boston Massacre and Tea Party. |  | 21 |
| 5013807905 | Stamp Act | Direct tax on the English colonists on a series of 54 paper goods, including all legal documents and even playing cards that was protested heavily. |  | 22 |
| 5013807906 | Sugar Act | First act passed for the sole purpose of raising revenue; it collected a duty on rum and molasses products; few protested it since it was an indirect tax. |  | 23 |
| 5013807907 | Writs of Assistance | Search warrants that were used by the British after the French and Indian War to root out smugglers who were defying the Navigation Acts and tax laws. | 24 |
