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| Writs of Assitance | General search warrant for colonial homes and buildings, searching for smuggled goods |
| Quartering Act | Colonists were required to provide food and shelter for British troops |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Prohibited all settlement or fur trapping west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Boston Massacre | A crowd of colonists in Boston began to poke fun at British soldiers. They threw stones. The Briitish soldiers fired their guns and 5 Americans were killed |
| Stamp Act | An internal tax erquiring colonists to purchase stamps for printed materials such as wills, mortgages and newspapers |
| Gaspee Affair | Colonists attacked and burned British customs cutter that was stuck on a sandbar off Providence, Rhode Island |
| Patriot, rebel, Whig | People who wanted the colonies free and independent of Great Britain |
| Hessian | German soldiers that the British hired to help fight the war. This type of soldier is called a mercenary. |
| Tory, Loyalist | people who were loyal to King George III of Great Britain |
| Sons of Liberty | This group of colonists did many things to protest British laws and taxes. Samuel Adams was the head. One protest was the Boston Tea Party |
| Moderate | A person who didn't have strong feelingss either way about the colonists desire for freedom |
| Committee of Correspondence | This group was started in Massachusetts by Samuel Adams. The group wrote letters to other groups in the colonies to share news about the British and share plans about resisting the British. |
| Samuel Adams | Head of the Sons of Liberty. he started the Committee of Correspondence |
| Boston Tea Party | Boston citizens disguised as American Indians boarded a British trade ship and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor |
| Second Continental Congress | Decided toestablish a regular army. George Washington chosen as commander-in-chief of the new Continental Army |
| First Continental Congress | To support the city of Boston, the Continental Congress agreed to boycott British goods and raise a volunteer army |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Although the British won, this battle proved that the Americans would not be easy to beat |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | Beginning of American Revolution. Eight Americans killed at Lexington. "Shot heard around the world" |
| No taxation without representation | All taxes were set up by the British Parliament, the lawmaking group. There were no American representatives in Parliament. Colonists said this was unfair. Colonists wanted their ideas about taxes represented. |
| Navigation Acts | Colonists were ordered to ship goods in or out of colonies only on British ships |
| Sugar Act | Reduced taxes on foreign sugar and molasses but stricter enforcement of Navigation Act |
| Townshend Acts 1767 | Import tariffs (taxes) were placed on colonies for goods such as tea, paper, glass, coloring for paints |
| Tea Act | Repealed Townshend Acts; however, a small duty was kept on tea; gave East India company a monopolyon tea imports to American colonies |
| Intolerable acts | 1. Demanded payment for all tea destroyed. 2. Closed port of Boston to all vessels. 3. Transferred to England all legal suits against any British officer. 4. Forbidding any colonial assembly. 5. Ohio Valley off limits |
