| A | B |
|---|
| French and Indian War | Conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley |
| Stamp Act | required colonists to pay a tax on printed goods |
| Quatering Act | required colonists to house and feed British troops |
| Tea Act | required colonists to buy tea from the British East India Company |
| Intolerable Acts | law that closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for tea ruined in Boston Tea Party |
| Boston Tea Party | protest in Boston in which colonists dumped tea into the harbor |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Law that forbade colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| repeal | to cancel |
| protest | to act out against to show dislike |
| treason | to go against your government |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | Conflict in which Native Americans attacked British settlers moving west |
| Battle of Lexington & Concord | First battle of the American Revolution |
| Second Continental Congress | Group of 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence |
| Patriot | a person that wanted to break free from British rule |
| Loyalist | a person that wanted to stay with Great Britain |
| King George III | the king of Britain during the American Revolution |
| Parliament | Britain's law making body |
| George Washington | the leader of the Continental Army |
| Thomas Jefferson | the author of the Declaration of Independence |
| debts | unpaid money that was borrowed |
| delegate | a representative that might attend a meeting for your city, state, or country |
| boycott | to refuse to buy goods as a way to protest |
| unalienable rights | life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| act | a law |
| July 4, 1776 | the date the Declaration of Independence was signed |
| Boston Massacre | Conflict that resulted in the death of 5 colonists |
