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| Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited American colonial farmers from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio Valley |
| Sugar Act | placed a tax on all non-British molasses imported into the colonies |
| Stamp Act | placed a tax on all printed materials in the colonies; most hated of all taxes |
| taxation without representation | colonial claim that Parliament could not tax them because the colonists were not represented there |
| boycott | refusal by the colonists to import British products in an attempt to gain the repeal of the Stamp Act, the Townshend taxes, and the Intolerable Acts |
| Townshend Acts | placed a tax on products imported into the colonies including tea, lead, glass, paper, and paints |
| Boston Massacre | confrontation between British soldiers and townspeople after the Townshend Acts that resulted in five colonists being killed |
| Tea Act | gave the British India Company a monopoly by allowing them to sell tea directly to the colonies |
| Boston Tea Party | protest against the Tea Act that resulted in the destruction of 342 chests of tea |
| Intolerable Acts | Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party that punished Boston, including closing Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for |
| First Continental Congress | called in response to the Intolerable Acts, they demanded the repeal of the acts |
| Second Continental Congress | government of the colonies during most of the American Revolution, it created and army and navy and appointed Washington as commander-in-chief |
| Declaration of Independence | written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, it listed complaints against the king and gave the colonists a cause to fight for |
| Treaty of Paris | ended the war, gave the U.S. its independence, established American boundaries and gave Florida to Spain |
| Lexington and Concord | the opening shots of the American Revolution |
| Bunker Hill | the first real battle of the American Revolution and a moral victory for the American troops |
| Saratoga | turning point of the American Revolution; it resulted in an alliance with France |
| Yorktown | the final battle of the American Revolution when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Washington and the American army |
| mercantilism | a political and economic policy under which a nation tries to get more wealth and power than her rivals |
| salutary neglect | the non-enforcement of taxes on the colonies that ended after the French and Indian War, which helped lead to the American Revolution |
