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| mercantilism | theory that it was the colonists duty to provide for the mother country |
| tarriffs | a tax on goods imported into a country |
| French and Indian war | 1754-1763 |
| Who won the French and Indian War | England and the Colonists |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Prohibited colonists from settling on land west of the appalachian Mountains and made colonists that were already settled must leave. |
| Why did England Tax the colonists? | To pay off French and Indian War debt |
| Townshed Acts | placed taxes on items, such as glass, tea, paper, and lead that the colonists imported from England |
| Quartering Act | colonists were required to house British troops and provide them with food and beverage |
| Sons of Liberty | Protest group against English oppression |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dressed up like Native Americans and boarded an English ship stocked with taxed tea. They opened the tea creates and dumped them into the harbor |
| Coercive Intolerable Acts | Acts imposed on the city of Boston by England after the Boston Tea Party |
| Common Sense | Pamphlet written by Englishman Thomas Paine on why the colonies should be free and independent from England |
| Patriot | Colonists who supported the idea of independance |
| Loyalist | Colonists who supported England |
| Tory | Colonists who supported England |
| John Locke | European that was an Enlightenment period leader, He introduced new ideas and concepts different than the feudalism methods that dominated Europe. His writtings inspired Thomas Jefferson and influenced his writting of the Declaration of Independance. |
| Unalienable Rights as of the Declaration of Independance | 1.Life 2. Liberty 3. The pursuit of Happiness |
| Saratoga | The 1st major victory for the Continental Army. It proved to France that the Americans could win the war, thus France lended its support with troops, money, and supplies. This battle is known as the turning point of the American Revolution. |
| Yorktown | Yorktown Virginia- The final battle of the American Revolutionary War. General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington |
| Marques de Lafayette | French General that helped train Continental Army and provide stratagy. |
