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| Quartering Act | one of the Intolerable Acts which forced colonist to house British soldiers in their homes |
| shut down Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea; canceled Massachusett's Charter; moved trials of royal colonial officials to Britain and imposed the Quartering Act | 4 laws that made up the Intolerable Acts |
| Committees of Correspondence | committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1760s to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British laws |
| boycott | refusal to buy certain goods; colonists used this strategy to protest taxes imposed by British |
| Sons of Liberty | secret society formed in the mid 1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors |
| Daughters of Liberty | womens' groups that used boycotts and other measures to support the colonies' resistance to the British |
| propoganda | stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| Boston Tea Party | protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Boston Massacre | incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people |
| repeal | to abolish such as a law |
| Writs of Assistance | special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods |
| Sugar Act | taxed molasses and sugar imported by the colonies |
| Stamp Act | law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents |
| Townshend Acts | Law passed by Parliament placing duties on certain items imported by the colonists |
| Tea Act | Law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party |
| both countries wanted control of Europe and the American frontier to increase their land and wealth | reason France and Britain fought for may years |
| Treaty of Paris | name of peace treaty signed after the French and Indian War |
| Britain got Canada and all French lands east of the Mississippi except for New Orleans | terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763 |
| Proclamation Line | a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains as a result of the Proclamation of 1763 |
| keep peace between colonists, Indians and Fur Trappers; result of Pontiac's War | reason that the Proclamation Line was draw |
