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| Albany Plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin's plan for a Grand Council to make laws, raise taxes, and set up the defense of the colonies |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | Treaty that ended the French and Indian War |
| War Debt | Expenses acquired by England from fighting the French and Indian War. |
| Boycott | To refuse to buy certain goods or services |
| Smuggling | To import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal tax |
| Sons of Liberty | Group of colonial men who joined together to protest the stamp act and protect colonial liberties |
| Salutary Neglect | An undocumented, though long-lasting, British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain |
| Proclamation of 1763 | British law that forbade American colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Repeal | To cancel a law |
| Loyalist | Colonist who stayed loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution |
| Patriot | Colonist who supported the American Revolution |
| Minutemen | Volunteer that trained to fight against the British in 1775 |
| Stamp Act 1765 | Law passed by Parliament that taxed legal documents, newspapers and playing cards |
| Townshend Act | British law that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, silk and tea |
| Boston Massacre | Shooting of five Bostonians by British soldiers on March 5, 1770 |
| Tea Act | British law that let the East India Tea company sell tea directly to the colonist |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed in 1774 to punish colonist for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | Law that required colonist to provide housing for British soldiers stationed in the colonies |
| No taxation without representation | Colonist slogan for unfair taxing by King George III |
