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- An act which forced colonists to purchase a stamp on all paper goods.
- The Declaration of Independence was written during this meeting
- Colonists protested against the British acts by not buying any goods from England which made them more independent. This is an example of ___________.
- "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death," is a famous quote from this person's speech to rally support for the fight against the British.
- This group formed to beat up and threaten tax collectors
- This city was at the 'heart of the revolution'
- The lawmaking group in the British government.
- One of the two acts passed in 1765 that forced colonists to house British soldiers.
- The first battle occurred in________
- Colonists who remained faithful to England were called _________
- A group of workers that work together to improve their working conditions
- When land in Great Britain is fenced off, forcing a mass movement of people into cities looking for work.
- A factory system in which a product is created by a series of workers adding a separate piece of the product until the product is completed.
- Goods are mass produced in factories by machines
- The belief that sharing ownership of the means of production equally among society would increase people's quality of life. Socialists want to give people free access to basic life necessities like food, housing, and healthcare.
- Grants general fought with him in the west, "war is hell and the worse you make it the sooner it will be over" put in charge of army in the west, responsible for March to the Sea and using TOTAL WAR in destroying south
- Didn't see end of war, southern conspirators in Washington plotted to kidnap Lincoln in exchange him for pow, after several unsuccessful attempts to the leader John Wilkins Booth assigned members to assassinate top union officials and took out Lincoln himself
- Lee surrendered his army of northern Virginia in a little village's courthouse, surrender to grant, signed in the home of Wilmer Mclean whose first house was damaged during the first battle of the civil war
- Remained loyal to union during civil war, chose him to help with south's reconstruction, was a democrat, southern, and unpopular with congress wrong man at the wrong time to be president
- Gettysburg, after two days south's Pickett's charge failed miserably and they retreat to Virginia, it was the last chance for the south to win the war