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- Battle_of_Gettysburg
- a battle of the American Civil War (1863)
- great compromise
- the agreement by which Congress would have two houses, the Senate (where each state gets equal representation-two senators) and the House of Representatives (where representation is based on population).
- Checks and Balances
- each branch of the national government can check the actions of the oter two branches
- Nazi
- a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
- culture
- entire way of life of people
- continental congress
- the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution
- Lexington
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- committees of correspondence
- a network of communication set up in massachusetts and virginia to inform other colonies of ways that britain threatened colonial rights
- cabinet
- Avisory Council for the president, consisting og the heads of the executive departments, the vice president, and a few other officials selected by the president
- French and Indian war
- this struggle between the British and the French in the colonies of the North America was part of a worldwide war known as the Seven Years' War
- boston tea party
- protest in which Bostonians dressed as Indians and dumped British tea into the harbor
- civilization
- advanced culture
- battle of yorktown
- Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.
- patriots
- people who were determined to fight great Britain to the end, until American independence was won
- adapt
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditionse
- tariff
- a government tax on imports or exports
- boycott
- to not by
- battle of saratoga
- Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England by taking control of the Hudson River, and, most importantly, showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy, Great Britain.
- bill of rights
- lists freedoms that the government promises to protect
- Iroquois confederacy
- the union of five major Iroquois peoples beginning about 1570, the union of five major Iroquois peoples beginning about 1570
- loyalists
- colonist who stayed loyal to great Britian during the American revolution
- currency
- a different type of money
- Columbian exchange
- The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans
- House of representatives
- House of congress that determines the number of its members by the population of the states
- triangle trade
- trading system that used the colonies to separate the money for european trade
- civil_war
- a war between factions in the same country
- proclamation
- the formal act of proclaiming
- Intolerable Acts
- A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British
- land bridge
- land connecting Asia and the Americas, once above water but now under the Bering Sea
- veto
- to reject a bill or law
- Stamp_Act
- an act passed by the British parliment in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
- concord
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)