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| Seven Years' War | Global war between Britain and France that begins in the US |
| French and Indian War | Part of Seven Years' that takes place in the US, leads to increased presence of Britain in the colonies |
| Impressment | forcing men to serve in the militia, like the draft now |
| Peace of Paris of 1763 | peace settlement reached after the Seven Years' War, gives Britain more land in the colonies |
| Proclamation of 1763 | declaration by Britain that no colonist is permitted to settle west of the Appalachian mountains |
| Mutiny Act of 1765 | Requires colonists to house and feed British troops |
| Sugar Act of 1764 | Raises taxes on sugar |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | Imposes a tax on every printed document |
| Townshend Duties | Increases import tax on items such as lead, paint, paper and tea |
| Boston Massacre | 1770 fight between colonists and British troops resulting deaths of five colonists |
| Committee of Correspondence | loose network of political groups who publicize problems the colonists have with Britain |
| Virtual Representation | when a group is represented indirectly in a larger group, like parliament |
| Actual Representation | when a group member represents that group in a larger group, like a parliament |
| Tea Act of 1773 | Exempted British companies from taxing their tea in the colonies in order to take business away from colonial mercahnts, colonists respond by boycotting tea |
| Boston Tea Party | 1773 event in which colonists board British ships and throw tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Coercive Acts of 1774 or Intolerable Acts | these acts close the port of Boston, remoe power from Massachusetts assembly, perit colonists to be tried in Britain, and require colonists to house British troops in the colonies |
| First Continental Congress | Group of colonists who gather to respond to the events at Lexington and Concord |
| William Pitt | Sent by the British to run the war in the colonies |
| King George III | British king from the time of the French and Indian War through the Revolution |
| George Grenville | British Prime Minister who believed the colonies should pay their portion of the war debt |
| Patrick Henry | Virginia assembly memeber who called for colonists to have the same rights as the British |
| Sons of Liberty | Boston-based colonial rebel group that leads protests against new British restrictions |
| Thomas Hutchinson | British leader appointed to lead Massachusetts, faced numerous uprisings from the colonists, including the destruction of his home |
| Charles Townshend | British leader who took power over the colonies in the 1760s and created several new taxes that caused uproar in the colonies |
| Samuel Adams | founds the Sons of Liberty and leads colonial resistance in Boston |
| Minutemen | Colonial militia that is ready to go at a moment's notice |
| General Thomas Gage | British officer in command at Lexington and Concord |
| Paul Revere | Warned colonists of the impending British arrival in Lexington and Concord |
| John Locke | Enlightenment thinke who says all people have the natural right to life, liberty and property |
| Lexington and Concord | The first battles of the Revolutionary war take place here |
