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| King George III | person who wanted to keep peace with the Native Americans and to abide by the Proclamation of 1763 |
| Quartering Act | cost saving measure passed by Parliament that made colonists house and provide supplies to British troops |
| revenue | income |
| Sugar Act | tax on molasses, sugar, and other products that were being sold to the colonists |
| Stamp Act | law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid |
| Patrick Henry | called for resistence to the Stamp Act; a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses |
| boycott | refusing to buy as a form of protest |
| Sons of Liberty | secret society that opposed British policies; Paul Revere, Samuel Adams |
| Crispus Attucks | Native American and African American ancestry; early American hero in the fight for America's freedom; born into slavery; lost his life at the Boston Massacre |
| Townshend Acts | named after the king's finance minister; was made in response to New York citizens refusing to quarter troops without pay;suspended New York's assembly and added duties on various goods brought into the colonies |
| writs of assistance | search warrant |
| Samuel Adams | member of the Sons of Liberty; led the protest against the Townshend Act; started the drive to form committees of correspondence |
| Boston Massacre | incident used as a propaganda tool against the British |
| John Adams | lawyer who defended the British soldiers who were a trial for the shooting at the Boston Massacre |
| committees of correspondence | groups that exchanged letters among one another |
| Boston Tea Party | disguised as Native Americans Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest British taxation |
| militia | group of armed civilians |
| Minutemen | member of colonial militia who was trained to respond 'at a minute's warning' |
| Intolerable Acts | Coercive Acts; series of laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights; John Adams named it 'a nursery of American statesmen' |
| Paul Revere | member of the Sons of Liberty; Bostonian silversmith; took part in the "Midnight Ride" |
| Lexington and Concord | first battles of the Revolutionary War |
| "the shot that was heard around the world" | reference to the Revolutionary War |
| Loyalist | supported the British |
| Patriot | supported the Colonists |
| Ethan Allen | leader of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys |
| artillery | cannons and large guns |
| Second Continental Congress | governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence |
| Continental Army | colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 with George Washington as its commanding general |
| Benedict Arnold | colonial officer who played an important role in winning at the victory at Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | document that states the colonies to dissolve their alligence to Britian |
| Thomas Jefferson | composed the Declaration of Independence |
| Proclamation of 1763 | said that colonists would not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| James Otis | "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" |
| Declaratory Act | proclaimed that Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies |
| duties | import taxes |
| Daughters of Liberty | secret society of women against British policies |
| Lobster | derogatory name for British troops; Redcoats |
| Yankee | derogatory name for colonists |
| propaganda | an opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing the actions of others |
| Patrick Henry | "But as for me, give me liberty or give me death." |
| William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott | took part in the "MIdnight Ride" |
| musket | most common weapon of the Revolutionary War |
| Patriot's Day | celebrated in Massachusetts and Maine every 3rd Monday in April; reenactments of the Revolutionary War take place; Boston Marathon takes place this day as well |
| Bunker Hill | British won this battle but at a tremendous cost; battle proved that the inexperienced militia could hold its own against the most powerful army in the world |
| Common Sense | written by Thomas Paine where he made a strong case for America's Independence |
| Olive Branch Petition | document written by Congress to the king to ask him to restore peace between Britain and the colonies |
| Hessians | 'for hire' trained German soldiers |
| July 4, 1776 | Date the Declaration of Independence was adopted and a new government formed |
| Liberty Bell | was rung on July 7th to announce the first public reading of the Declaration on Independence |
| John Hancock | President of Congress who signed his name first to the Declaration of Independence in big bold letters |
