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| population | The number of people living in a place |
| militia | a group of voluteer soldiers who fight when there is an emergency. |
| Edward Braddock | British General who died during the French and Indian War. |
| Fort Necessity | A fort in the Ohio River Valley that was built by George Washington. |
| Red Coats | Nickname for the British Soldiers |
| Pontiac | Ottawa Indian chief who wanted Indians to attack white settlers in America. |
| Parliament | The lawmaking body in Britian |
| proclaimation | An official announcement |
| George III | King of England during the American Revolutionary War |
| Patrick Henry | Virginia lawyer who wanted Americans to oppose the Stamp Tax. |
| treason | Giving help to the enemies |
| Stamp Act | A British tax on newspapers and documents |
| Sammuel Adams | Patriot leader who led protests agains the Stamp Act in Boston. |
| repeal | vote to end something |
| Townshend Acts | British law that taxed many goods brouth into the colonies. |
| Crispus Attucks | Former slave who was the 1st person killed in the Boston Massacre. |
| John Adams | Patriot leader who became the 2nd president of the US. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Group organized by Sam Adams to tell colonists in other places about important events. |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonists dressed as Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tax on tea. |
| Intolorable Acts | Terrible laws that Britian passed in order to punish people in Boston for the Poston Tea Party. |
| First Continental Congress | Meeting where repersentatives from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philidelphia to discuss problems. |
| petition | a written request signed by many people |
| minutemen | New England militia who said they could be ready to fight in one minute. |
| Concord | Place in Massachusetts where the 2nd battle of the Revolutionary War took place. |
| Lexington | Place in Massachusetts where the 1st battle of the Revolutionary War took place. |
| Paul Revere | Silversmith and patriot who warned Minutemen that the British soldiers were coming to attack Massachusetts. |
| boycott | to refuse to buy something |
