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| Tea Act | This act was passed in 1773 allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonist. The colonist boycotted this act because it her the merchants by making imported tea cheaper. |
| Writs of Assistance | a legal document giving British officers the right to search any building for any reason |
| Townshend Act | This act placed a tax on glass, paint, paper, lead and tea. |
| Proclamation Act of 1763 | This law forbid the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains allowing the British soldiers to keep a closer eye on the colonists. |
| Intolerable Acts | passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, this act closed the port of Boston and restricted representative government |
| Stamp Act | This act taxed newpapers, almanacs, playing cards and all legal documents |
| Quartering Act | This act forced the colonists to provide food and shelter for the British soldiers. |
| Boston Massacre | organized by the Sons of Liberty, many colonists throw snowballs at British soldiers causing a shot to be fired. Few colonists were killed but propaganda was used to encourage colonists to revolt against England |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty unhappy about the Tea Act, dressed as indians and boarded the Dartmouth (english ship) and threw all of the tea into the harbor |
| Boycott | to refuse to buy a product or service |
| Propaganda | information used to influence the way in which one thinks |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of men living in Boston who organized various protests against British taxes |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | officially ended the Seven Years' War |
| The French and Indian War | a war fought between France and England in the Americas. England Won! |
| Stamp Act Congress | A group of non-violent individuals who organized in protest to the Stamp Act |
| smuggling | the illegal sale of products |
| direct tax | when a customer is aware of the fact that he/she is being taxed |
| indirect tax | when a tax is hidden from the customer (built into the price) |
| British East India company | A company that held a monopoly of the tea trade. When the colonists began to smuggle and boycot tea, they the Tea Act to save the company from bankrupcy. |
| The Battles of Lexington and Concord | the immediate cause the American Revolution |
| First Continental Congress | Group of all delegates (except Georgia)who met in Philadelphia to ban trade w/ Britain and begin training soldiers for war |
| North Church | location where Revere would hang his lanterns to war Americans when the British were coming to invade Concord |
| Concord | city located northwest of Boston where the Minutemen stored their ammunition |
| Minutemen | colonial militia who would be ready in a "minutes notice" if they were needed to fight in a battle |
| militia | an army of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers |
| Loyalists (aka Tories) | American citizens who were still loyal to Britain and did not want to fight for independence |
| Patriots | Americans who sided w/ Minutemen and wanted to gain independence from Britain |
| George III | The ruler of England who was responsible for passing many of the taxes on the American colonists |
| Charles Townshend | king's finance minister who created the Townshend Acts to help earn money for England |
| Paul Revere | Patriot who acted as a messenger when he rode to the North Church to warn the colonists of the British attack on Concord |
| John Hancock | wealthy Boston merchant who headed up several committees and wanted to wage war w/ Britain |
| Thomas Gage | British general who attacked Americans at Lexington and Concord |
| Fort Ticonderoga | fort where the British were storing artillery (canons/guns) |
| Green Mountain Boys | Rowdy Patriots from Vermont who attacked Fort Ticonderoga (included Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold) |
| Second Continental Congress | meeting of delegates where George Washington was appointed the Commander of the Continental Army |
| Bunker Hill | moral victory for Americans, they only lost because they ran out of gun powder |
| Isreal Putnam | American general at the Battle of Bunker Hill quoted as saying "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes" |
| Breed's Hll | The actual location of the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| General William Howe | British General who defeated the Americans at Bunker Hill |
