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Chapter 7 The Road to Revolution

Glossary Definitions

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The highest social class in the coloniesgentry
The possibility that for a person to move from one social class to anothersocial mobility
A period of time when renewed interest or revival in religion took place in the 1730's and 1740's.The Great Awakening
The Age of Reason was a movement emphasized by science and reasonThe Enlightenment
The European name for the French and Indian WarThe Seven Years War
A powerful Native American confederationThe Iroquois League
A plan that called for a council made up of delegates from each colony, with a leader picked by the king.The Albany Plan of Union
The British and French signed a peace treaty in 1763The Treaty of Paris
The king's order that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian MountainsProclamation of 1763
housing and feedingquartering
reefusal to buy or sell any British goodsboycott
This act or law placed a tax on on paint, glass, lead, and tea.The Townshend Acts
This act allowed officials to search any home for smuggled goods.writs of assistance
organized committees that wrote news and letters to inform the colonists what was happening.Committees of Correspondence
The British called the punishment of Boston the Coercive ActsThe Intolerable Acts.
In 1774, 56 delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia.First Continental Congress.
A second meeting in May of 1775 met to appoint a military commander to raise an army.The Second Continental Congress


Social Studies 5-1,5-2, 5-3 Instructor
Shenandoah Valley Elementary Center

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