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| militia | civilians serving as soldiers |
| casualties | people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war |
| backcountry | frontier region between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains |
| pioneers | people who first settle an area; first settled the back country |
| boycott | refusal to buy certain goods |
| propoganda | stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| Metacomet | leader of the Wampnoag tribe who fought against the British in King Philip's War |
| King Phillip | name given to Metacomet by the English settlers |
| Crispus Attucks | African American sailor killed in the Boston Massacre |
| Sam Adams | person whose ideas helped inspire the slogan "No taxation without representation" |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief who led the Indian tribes against the British |
| writs of assistance | special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods |
| Iroquois | Indian tribe that allied themselves with the British |
| trade | Indian and European alliances were based on this |
| tax collectors | group of people most often targeted by The Sons of Liberty. |
| Albany Plan of Union | first document that tried to unite the colonies for a common purpose |
| Intolerable Acts | the name colonists used to describe the Coercive Acts |
| Daughters of Liberty | met to sew and make household goods during the colonial boycotts |
| Patrick Henry | presented resolutions to the Virginia House of Burgesses insisting that the Stamp Act was unjust |
| colonial militia | part-time colonial force that the British used to help them defeat the French |
| George Washington | colonist from Virginia who was sent to deliver a message to the French near the Ohio River in 1753 |
| 7 Years War | another name for the French and Indian War |
| The British marched in a line out in the open wearing bright colors while the French and American Indians hid behind trees and ambushed them | reason why General Braddock's tactics were ineffective in North America |
| Fort Pitt | name given to Fort Duquesne after it was captured |
| James Wolfe | commander who fooled the French at Quebec |
| British settled on Indian lands and the Indians received fewer goods in trade from the British and French | reason the American Indians suffered when the French were removed from the Eastern North America |
| large forests, fertile land that was good for farming | reasons why people wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley |
| British forts | Chief Pontiac and his followers targeted these in 1763 |
| banned further British settlement west of the Appalachians and asked colonists already settled there to leave | terms of the Proclamation of 1763 |
| Sugar Act | taxed molasses and sugar imported by the colonists |
| caused economic problems inthe colonies and prevented colonists from printing their own money | results of the Currancy Act on the colonies |
| searched merchant ships and required merchants to make a list of all goods carried on their ships | efforts by the British to prevent smuggling |
| boycott items such as British clothes | The Committees of Correspondence recommended this to protest against British taxes |
| Patrick Henry | presented resolutions to the House of Burgesses insisting the Stamp Act was unjust |
| they made cloth and other necessary goods at home instead of buying British goods | The Daughters of Liberty resisted British taxes by doing this |
| show colonists that they still had the right to tax the colonists | reason Parliament passed the Tea Tax |
| shut down Boston Harbor until colonists paid for the destroyed tea; canceled Massachusetts's Charter; moved trials of royal colonial officials to Britain and imposed the Quartering Act | 4 laws that made up the Coercive or Intolerable Acts |
