Colonial Period and Independence

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• Freedom
• Political liberty
• Religious freedom
• Economic opportunity
• Escape persecution

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• American Indians
• Native Americans

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• Africans
• People from Africa

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• American Revolution
• The (American) Revolutionary War
• War for (American) Independence

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• High taxes
• Taxation without representation
• British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering)
• They did not have self-government
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable (Coercive) Acts

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• (Thomas) Jefferson

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• July 4, 1776

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• (Battle of) Bunker Hill
• Declaration of Independence
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton)
• (Battle of) Saratoga
• Valley Forge (Encampment)
• (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)

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• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia

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• (U.S.) Constitution

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• (James) Madison
• (Alexander) Hamilton
• (John) Jay
• Publius

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• They helped people understand the (U.S.) Constitution.
• They supported passing the (U.S.) Constitution.

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• Founded the first free public libraries
• First Postmaster General of the United States
• Helped write the Declaration of Independence
• Inventor
• U.S. diplomat

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• "Father of Our Country"
• First president of the United States
• General of the Continental Army
• President of the Constitutional Convention

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• Writer of the Declaration of Independence
• Third president of the United States
• Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
• First Secretary of State
• Founded the University of Virginia
• Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom

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• "Father of the Constitution"
• Fourth president of the United States
• President during the War of 1812
• One of the writers of the Federalist Papers

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• First Secretary of the Treasury
• One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
• Helped establish the First Bank of the United States
• Aide to General George Washington
• Member of the Continental Congress

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