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| Proclamation of 1763 | A Parliament law that said colonies couldn't move west of the Appalachians. |
| Quartering Act | A law by Patliament that required the colonists to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies. |
| Sugar Act | Colonists had to pay England a tax on sugar and molasses sent to them from England. |
| revenue | income. Britain wanted this from the colonies because they thought it fair that the 13 colonies share in the debt burden from the French and Indian War. |
| Stamp Act | A Parliament law requiring a tax on all printed documents (diplomas, contracts, wills, newspapers) |
| Boston Tea Party` | To rebel against the Tea Act, many colonists, dressed as Indians, boarded English boats in Boston harbor and dumped several hundred crates of tea overboard. |
| Boston Massacre | Tension exploded with violence as colonists taunted British sentries on guard at the Custom House in Boston. The soldiers fired and Crispus Attucks and 4 other colonists died. |
| Tea Act | Parliament passed this law that forced colonists to pay taxes on and buy only tea from a British tea company. Colonists had been paying no tax on tea smuggled from Holland. |
| Intolerable Acts | Parliament retaliated after the Boston Tea Party with these acts that closed Boston's port until the tea damage was paid for. Britain also refused to let the colonists assemble. |
| Magna Carta | an English document that limited the powers of the king and began to give "rights" to Englishmen |
| John Locke | an English Enlightenment thinker, who was opposed to authoritarianism. He believed people had natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that education would set you free from tyranny. |
| Sons of Liberty | Patriot group opposed to British taxing the colonies w/o any representatives. They tarred and feathered the British tax collectors sent to the colonies. |
| Declaratory Act | stated that British Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies |
| Sam Adams | outspoken leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| John Adams | lawyer who defended the British soldiers who took part in the Boston Massacre. 2nd pres of US |
| British General Gage went to Lexington & Concord to | destroy ammo & weapons and arrest Sam Adams & John Hancock |
| Patriots | colonists who sided with the rebels against the British |
| Loyalists | colonists who supported the British and did NOT want to go to war agst king |
| Continental Army | army of the colonials, led by George Washington |
| Olive Branch Petition | document sent to London asking for harmony, NOT WAR, between England & the colonies |
| Benedict Arnold | American officer who became a spy for Britain |
| Common Sense | a pamphlet by Thomas Paine convincing Americans a complete break from the "royal brute" of England was necessary |
| 2nd Continental Congress | formed a Continental Army (a colonial army) |
| Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jeffrson, excellent writer from VA |
