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| Salutary Neglect | Occured when the government in London was too busy to notice that the American Colonies were prospering. |
| Old Colonial System | Term used to describe the years of salutary neglect. |
| Privateer | A legally liscenced pirate. |
| Navigation Acts | Told sailors where they could trade and who they could trade with. |
| Dominian of New England | Was ruled by a single royal governor assisted by a council also appointed by the crown. |
| Loyalists | Colonists who remained loyal to England during the American Revolution. |
| Boston Tea Party | Members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and threw tea off English ships into Massachusetts Bay to demonstrate against the tea act. |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote the Common Sense pamphlet; man most responsible for the Declaration of Independence. |
| Intolerable Acts | Created to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party |
| Quebec Act | An innocent attempt to organize into the empire the area taken from France in the French and Indian War by Britain. |
| First Continental Congress | A colllection of delegates from the colonies that happened to be neighbors on tWas formed in response to a call from Massachusetts to stop all trade with Great Britain. |
| Second Continental Congress | Congress that demanded freedom from Britain by writing the Declaration of Independence. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Bloodiest conflict to ever take place on the soil of British North Anmerica. |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | Created in an attempt to keep colonists from heading west. |
| Sugar Act | Act that replace the Molasses Act of 1733. |
| Stamp Act | Act that put a tax on the buying of stamps. |
| Stamp Act Congress | Protested the taxation by Parliament and the widening powers of the Admiralty Courts; also demanded the repeal of the Sugar and Stamp Acts. |
| Declaratory Act | Stated that Parliament still had the power to make laws for the colonists in every case. |
| Townshend Acts | Act that reorganized the custom's service. |
| Boston Massacre | When British soldiers killed five colonists because they had snowballs thrown at them by a group of unemployed workers; Crispus Attucks was among the five that died. |
| Common Sense | Most influential pamphlet ever to be published in America; Written by Thomas Paine. |
| Declaration of Independence | Written by Continental Congress and signed on July 4, 1776. |
| Militia | All the able-bodied citizens capable of baring arms who in colonial times and for many years there after met several times a year for drilling and target practice in order to be able to serve as a defense force. |
| Mercantilism | The theory that money, especially gold and silver, is what makes a nation powerful; as applied to the colonies, this meant that they existed only in order to enrich the mother country. |
