| A | B |
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| Metacomet | indian,Son of Massassoit of the Wampanoeg tribe. He disliked the English settlers and wanted to negotiate King Charles II |
| militia | civilians who trained to be soldiers |
| George Washington | 21year old militia officer |
| Albany Plan of the Union | call for colonists to unite for the first time |
| casualities | people who were killed |
| Edward Braddock | sent by King George II to command British forces in North America |
| James Wolfe | prepared a daring attack on Quebec |
| backcountry | frontier region between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains. |
| pioneers | people who first settled in an area |
| Pontiac | an indian chief who emerged as a leader of force |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Pontiac and his allies attacked British forts on their frontieer |
| Proclamation of 1763 | banned any further British Colony to be formed |
| Daniel Boone | led people west the Appalachian Mountains |
| George Grenville | wanted to find ways to pay major debts from the French and Indian Wars |
| Sugar Acts | set taxes on molasses, sugar and rum imported by colonies |
| James Ottis | a lawyer from Boston who talked about unfair taxes |
| Committees of Correspondence | committies approved by the House of Representatives in 1760's and to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British laws |
| boycott | refusal to buy certain things |
| Stamp Act | required colonists to pay on offical stamp and any paper goods |
| Sons of Liberty | secret society formed in the mid 1700's by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors |
| Patrick Henry | persecuted the resolution to the House of Burgess in May of 1765 |
| repeal | to abolish; to get rid of |
| Towsend Acts | placed duties( taxes) on imported glass, lead, paint , paper and tea |
| Rights of Assistance | special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods |
| Daughters of Liberty | womens groups that supported the colonie's resistance to the British by aiding boycotts and other measures |
| Crispus Attucks | an African American salior who was killed in the Boston Mascare |
| Boston Mascacre | it is the incident in which British soldiers fired into a group of colonists killing 5 people |
| proppaganda | stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| Tea Act | law passed by Parliment allowing the British East Indian Trading Company to tax tea |
| Intolerable Acts | Parliment passed to close the Boston Harbor, cancel the Boston Charter, and allow new Quartering Acts and the Quebec Acts |
| Mercy Ottis Warren | she wrote critical essays and poems and plays |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to supply British soldiers in the colonies with housing, bed and other needs |
| Quebec Act | gave Canada control of Ohio |
