| A | B |
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| Stamp Act | An ast which required that newspapers and many other documents be written or printed on stamped paper sold by the British goverment. |
| Revenue | Money derived from taxation |
| Boston Massacre | A riot in Boston in which several colonists were killed by British soldiers. |
| Loyalist | Colonists that were loyal to Britian. |
| "Common Sense" | Book wrote by Thomas Paine |
| Washington | The commander-in-chief of the American army. |
| Bunker Hill | The 1st major battle of the revolutionary war. |
| Valley Forge | A place where Washington trained his troops during a bitter winter. |
| French and Indian War | war that revived a spirit for freedom in the colonies. |
| Boston Tea Party | The dumping of tea into Boston harbor in protest of paying taxes. |
| Lexington | The first battle of the Rev. war |
| Hessians | German soldiers hired by England |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Parliament | British goverment |
| Boycott | agreement not to buy or use certain goods |
| Nathan Hale | said "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. |
| Ben Franklin | American diplomat to France |
| Great Awakening | a revival period i nwhich preachers warned of God's anger |
| William Dawes | rode to warn that the British were coming |
| John Locke | English writer who said the goverment should protect peoples natural rights |
| Edward Braddock | unsuccessfully commanded expidetion to capture Fort Duquesne in 1775 |
| Iroquois Legue | group of indians that sided with Britian in the French and Indian war |
| Bay Psalm Book | 1st book printed in the colonies |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | puritan whose poetry was the 1st published in America |
| Ticonderroga | Ethan Allen and the Green Mt. Boys won it |
| Saratoga | turning point of the revolutionary war |
| Clark | captured Northwest Territory |
| Brandywine | British won it |
| Intolerable Acts | 5 laws passed by England to punish colonists |
| Writs of Assistance | blank search warrants |
