| A | B |
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| William Pitt | British Prime Minister who turned around England's fortunes in the French and Indian War |
| Albany Plan of Union | In 1754, this proposed a plan for colonial self rule for defense purposes |
| Federalist Papers | Created to convince NY to ratify the Constitution |
| Stamp Act | passed in 1765; taxed printed documents |
| Saratoga | 1777; considered the turning point of the Revolution |
| Common Sense | written by Thomas Paine to urge support for independence |
| Preamble | the introduction to the Constitution, "We the People..." |
| Writs of Assistance | gave British troops the right to search anywhere for smuggled goods |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Banned American settlement west of the Appalachians |
| Federalists | supported the new Constitution; wanted a strong central government |
| Adam Smith | wrote Wealth of Nations; Father of Capitalism |
| Electoral College | a compromise created this to select the President rather than the people |
| Intolerable Acts | Also known as the Coercive Acts; passed due to the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | required the housing of British soldiers in vacant homes |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution |
| Boston Tea Party | Reaction to the Tea Act in 1773 |
| Quebec Act | Passed in 1774, Americans feared this denied people trial by jury and spread Catholic influence |
| Committees of Correspondence | Organized by Sam Adams to unite the colonies in protest against unfair British laws |
| Olive Branch Petition | Continental Congress sent this to the King to urge him to end the unfair laws and withdraw the soldiers |
| Boston Massacre | 1770; British soldiers fired on an angry mob of Americans |
| Benedict Arnold | hero of Saratoga and later tried to betray West Point to the British |
| George Grenville | British Prime Minister who wanted the Stamp Act |
| Bill of Rights | Those opposed to the Constitution said it lacked this |
| Anti-Federalists | People who spoke out against ratifying the Constitution |
| Yorktown | 1781; Gen. Cornwallis surrended to Washington and ended the war |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Indpendence |
| Battle of Quebec | This victory helped the British take control of New France |
| Articles of Confederation | our first constitution; left power in the hands of the states |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | Agreed that African Americans would not count as a full person when counting population for representation |
| Tories | also known as Loyalists |
| General John Burgoyne | British general who surrendered at Saratoga |
| Valley Forge | Washington's army spent a harsh winter here in 1777-78 |
| Trenton | American army surprised and defeated a Hessian army here in 1776 |
| Sullivan-Clinton Campaign | sent to destroy Iroquois villages in 1779 |
| Bunker Hill | British suffered heavy losses trying to take this position near Boston in 1775 |
| Great Compromise | decided that Congress would have two houses, one based on population and one with equal representation |
| Slave trade | It was agreed at the Constitutional Convention that this would end in 1808 |
| Peace of Paris | In 1783 this ended the Revolution and gave America the land from the Great Lakes to Florida and the East Coat to the Mississippi |
| Townshend Acts | Passed in 1767; placed taxes on lead, glass, tea, and paint |
| Declaratory Act | Passed in 1766 it said that Parliament had the right to tax the colonies |
| Northwest Ordinance | In 1787, this provided a uniform way for new states to be brought into the union |
| Land Act | This surveyed the Northwest Territory into townships and sections |
| Coercive Acts | The British name for the Intolerable Acts of 1774 |
| Ben Franklin | proposed the Albany Plan of Union based on the Iroquois Confederation |
