| A | B |
| The highest social class in the colonies | gentry |
| The possibility that for a person to move from one social class to another | social 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 reason | The Enlightenment |
| The European name for the French and Indian War | The Seven Years War |
| A powerful Native American confederation | The 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 1763 | The Treaty of Paris |
| The king's order that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| housing and feeding | quartering |
| reefusal to buy or sell any British goods | boycott |
| 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 Acts | The 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 |