Level 5 history - 3rd block
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- April 19, 1775
- The date the War for Independence began.
- The first meeting of the group of representatives from the the colonies.
- Continental Congress
- Groups started for the purpose of keeping contact between colonies.
- Committees of Correspondence
- The British general who surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
- Lord Cornwallis
- Quaker
- Members of a religious group who believed people should be free to worship as they pleased.
- July 4, 1776
- The date the Declaration of Independence was passed by Congress.
- Intolerable Acts
- Punishment inflicted upon the people of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party.
- The Commander in Chief of the Continental army.
- George Washington
- Roger Williams
- Puritan minister who was persecuted for holding different beliefs than most Puritans.
- plantation
- A large farm on which one main crop is grown.
- Rhode Island
- The colony started by Roger Williams where people had religious freedom.
- spiritual
- religious song
- indigo
- A plant from which blue dye is made.
- The chief city of the Massachussetts Bay Colony
- Boston
- The document stating the reasons the American colonies wanted to be free of British control
- Declaration of Independence
- The first of the 13 colonies to be settled.
- Virginia
- Middle Colonies
- New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
- Colony taken from the Dutch by the king of England's brother.
- New York
- Founded by James Ogelthorpe and debtors for the purpose of protecting the Northern colonies from Spain. Named in honor of King George.
- Georgia
- Massachussetts Bay Colony
- The colony started by the Puritans. Its chief cith wad Boston.
- naval stores
- Supplies made from pine trees and sent to England to be used by the English Navy.
- The colony founded by Cecilius Calvert as a refuge for Catholics.
- Maryland
- organized military force
- militia
- Rule or government by the people.
- democracy
- Was purchased from the Duke of York by William Penn and eventually became a separate colony from Pennsylvania.
- Delaware
- Those who supported the fight for independence from Britian.
- Patriots
- apprentice
- Student of a master craftworker for the purpose of learning that trade.
- Connecticut & New Hampshire
- Founded by people from the Masachussetts bay Colony where fishing, shipping, and farming were important ways to make a living.
- These two colonies began as one colony and were named in honor of King Charles II.
- North & South Carolina
- The introduction to the Declaration of Independence telling what rights people should have.
- Preamble
- town meeting
- A meeting of the inhabitants of a town to discuss or vote on town affairs.
- The British lawmaking body.
- Parliament
- debt
- Something that is owed, usually money.
- The last of the original 13 colonies to be settled.
- Georgia
- Colony founded by William Penn and other Quakers. Philadelphia is its largest city.
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Pennsylvania
- independence
- Freedom from great Britian's rule
- The 7 year war in which the colonies ans Britian fought against the French and the Indians.
- The French and Indian War
- The term for farmers and other citizens who were ready to fight "with a minute's warning."
- Minutemen
- The 5 southern colonies
- Maryland,Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
- The large area of land given to George Carteret and John Berkeley by the Duke of York.
- New Jersey
- The protest against British taxes which resulted in 300 chests of tea being thrown into the Boston Harbor.
- Boston Tea Party
- A killing of many people who cannot defend themselves very well.
- massacre
- Puritan
- A member of a religious group who did not want to leave the Church of England, but to purify it.
- Jamestown was founded in this colony.
- Virginia
- Located at the center of most New England towns and owned by all the people. Animals were put to graze here.
- common
- Sent out of Massachussetts Bay Colony for her religious beliefs.
- Anne Hutchinson
- Middle Passage
- The trip from Africa to America on a slave ship.
- Changes one type of government or way of thinking and replaces it with another.
- revolution
- People who lived in the colonies, but supported Britian and King George III
- Loyalists
- German soldiers hired to fight for the British
- Hessians
- Privately owned ships given permission by Congress to attack the British in the name of the United States government
- privateers