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Chief Pontiac | Ottawa indian who led a revolt against the colonists for two years |
George III | Was King of England during this time period |
Navigation Acts | Law saying that every good coming from or entering the colonies had to go to England. |
Sugar Act | a high tax on molasses, coffee, and indigo imported into the colonies. |
Currency Act | Made the colonists pay England with gold and silver. |
Stamp Act | The most hated of all the taxes. It was a tax on goods and services such as newspaper and contracts produced here in the colonies. |
Quartering Act | Forced colonists to pay for or house and feed British troops. |
Declaratory Act | Repealed the Stamp Act but also said that Parliament had total power over the Colonies. |
Townshend Acts | Did several things such as placing a new tax on tea. |
Boston Massacre | Riot in which 5 men were shot down by British troops. |
Gaspee | A British warship was set on fire and sank. |
Boston Tea Party | Large mob throws a huge amount of untaxed tea into the harbor. |
Coercive Act | Same as the Intolerable Acts |
Quebec Act | Extended Canada's border south to the Ohio River. |
Lexington Common | Site where the first shot of the American Revolution was fired. |
Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense |
Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaraton of Independence |
Ethan Allen | Leader of the Green Mountain Boys |
Proclamation of 1763 | Denied access to land west of the Appalachian Mts. |
Proclamation of Rebellion | Stated that the colonies were in open revolt against the King |
Hessians | German mercanaries fighting against the colonists |