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| town meeting | a gathering in New England towns where people talked about and decided on issues |
| English Bill of Rights | a bill passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch |
| triangular trade | trade among three places: the Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | the dangerous voyage of slaves from Africa to the colonies |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s |
| Enlightenment | a movement in Europe during the 1700s which spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| Pontiac | Ottawa Indian chief who tried to stop British settlement west of the Appalachians |
| Samuel Adams | American revolutionary who helped found the Committees of Correspondence |
| Committees of Correspondence | Committees formed in towns and colonies to share information about resisting British laws |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when they bought paper items |
| Boston Massacre | incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five |
| Tea Act | allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | Incident in which the colonists, dressed as Indians, dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | law requiring colonists to house British soliders |
