| A | B |
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| Boycott | To refuse to buy certain goods and services. |
| Militia | An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency. |
| Repeal | To cancel something. Ex When the English Parliament canceled the Stamp Act. |
| Sons/Daughters of Liberty | These groups were first formed during the Stamp Act crisis to protest British policies. Sam Adams was their leader. |
| Minuteman | Soldiers that kept their muskets at hand, prepared to fight at a moment's notice. |
| Stamp Act | This was a tax on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and dice. |
| Quartering Act | This law required colonists to pay for housing British soldiers. |
| Boston Tea Party | This was a protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | This law forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Townshend Acts | Law that taxed glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea. |
| Why did the French build forts in New France? | To stop English settlers from moving west. |
| Rivalry between the Algonquins and the Iroquois | Caused the Iroquois to help the English. |
| French advantage during the French and Indian War | New France had a single government, allowing for quick decisions. |
| William Pitt's leadership | turned the tide of battle in the French and Indian War |
| Colonists' protests against the Stamp Act | Colonists made strong protests in their newspapers and churches. |
| Chief Pontiac continues fighting | because Lord Amherst allowed English settlers to build forts on Indian lands. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | law which forbids colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Stamp Act | Taxed all legal documents, playing cards, dice, etc. |
| Sons/Daughters of Liberty | Group of people originally formed to protest British policies. |
| Writs of Assistance | Allowed British customs officers to search a ship without a search warrant. |
| Quartering Act | Forced colonists to allow British soldiers to live in their homes. Colonists thought this was another way of taxing them. |
| The main goal of the Tea Act | to raise money for the British East India Company. |
| Intolerable Acts | British Parliament's response to the Boston Tea Party. |
| Georgia | The colony missing from the First Continental Congress. |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers were attacked by an angry mob of colonists and the soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists. |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor. |
| Intolerable Acts | England closed the Boston port, forced colonists to have only one meeting a year, reinstated the Quartering Act, and British officials were tried in England for their crimes. |
