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| Pontiac's Rebellion | Uprising of Native American nations against a British military outpost led by an Ottowa leader |
| George Grenville | Prime minister that enforced existing laws and introduced new policies that were not liked by the colonists |
| Patrick Henry | Young Virginian lawyer that called the Stamp Act illegal |
| Samuel Adams | Outspoken Leader of the Sons of Liberty and organizer of Comittees of Correspondence |
| Lord North | Tried to improve relations with the colonies after the Boston Massacre; repealed the Townshend Acts except for tea |
| Fort Detriot | British fort where Pontiac led a successful attack against British troops |
| Boston Massacre | British troops fired into a crowd of youths and dockworkers |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Quartering Act | Colonists must pay for the housing and feeding of British soldiers |
| Stamp Act | Stated that tax must be paid on everyday items such as newspapers, playing cards, diplomas and licenses; violated "no taxation without representation" |
| Boycott | Agreement signed to not buy or sell certain goods |
| Townshead Acts | Placed import taxes on paint, glass, lead, paper and tea coming into America |
| Writs of assistance | blank search wararants used by British officials to search anywhere for suspected smuggling of goods |
| Committees of Correspondence | Organized by Samuel Adams, network of passing along news regarding what the British were doing |
| Crispus Attucks | African-American sailor killed during the Boston Massacre |
| Sugar Act of 1764 | Tax on foreign molasses and sugar |
| Declatory Act | Stated that Parliament had the right to rule and tax the colonies |
| Sons of Liberty | Group formed by small band of angry colonists to protest the Stamp Act |
| Stamp Act Congress | Formed by nine colonies that met in NYC to write up a protest against the Stamp Act |
| Nonimportation agreements | signed by merchants and planters by which they agreed not to buy items that were taxed |
| Daughters of Liberty | Concerned colonial woment that signed pledge to not drink tea and published notices in newspapers promising that they would not purchase British-made clothing |
| Tea Act | Gave the East India Company exclusive rights to sell tea directly to the Americans without paying the import tax |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty disquised as Mohawks that board ships and dumped tea into the harbor |
| Paul Revere | Delivered the Suffolk resolves at the First Continental Congress; rode from Concord to Lexingon with the news that the redcoats were coming |
| John Hancock | Wanted for arrest by the British |
| William Dawes | Rode from Concord to Lexington with news that the redcoats were coming |
| George Washington | Young major in the French and Indian War, appointed military commander to raise army against the British |
| Concord | Colonists' supplies of guns and gunpowder; Battle the colonists won against the British |
| Lexington | Battle the British won against the colonists on the way to Concord |
| Intolerable Acts | Punished the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | Passed resolutions that were a middle ground of the colonists' points of view; approved a militia |
| Second Continental Congress | Delgates from all 13 colonies met and created the Olive Branch Petition |
| Militia | A group of citizens who would be ready to fight in any emergency |
| Minutemen | Members of militia ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| Quebec Act | Extended the Canadian province down to the Ohio River and allowed French Canadians to keep their language, laws, and religion |
| Suffolk Resolves | called the coercive acts "the attempts of a wicked administration to enslave Americans" |
| Edmund Burke | English writer that wished for a comproise between England and the colonies |
| Olive Branch Petition | Asked the king to stop the war and make peace with the colonists |
