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| Navigation Acts | Restricted trade between the Americans Colonies and other nations |
| Quebec Act | Gave land to the French and the Indians in an attempt to limit the size of the American Colonies |
| Quartering Act | Forced the people of Boston to feed and house his majesty's troops |
| Stamp Act | Required merchants to affix a stamp on written materials, even playing cards |
| Port Act | Closed the Port at Boston after the Tea Party |
| Massachusetts Government Act | Changed Boston's government from an elected body to a royally appointd one. |
| Treaty of Paris | Named thus because the French helped negociate it, this treaty ended the American Revolution |
| Northwest Ordinance | Set up the guidelines in which a territory could become a state |
| Suffolk Resolves | Set of decrease aimed at England's abuses of Boston's liberty |
| Sugar Act (Revenue Act) | passed in 1764, taxed wine and other items |
| Battle of Long Island | Not really a battle, Washington's troops vastly outnumbered sneak across the river under heavy fog |
| Boston Masacre | Skirmage between soldiers and Boston dock workers |
| Boston Tea Party | Angered because the tax on the tea had to be paid even before it was purchased, and sold by a company with an illegal monopoly |
| Bunker Hill | Actually fought on Breeds Hill, 1500 Cononial troops tried to defend the high ground against 2400 British regulars |
| Lexington and Concord | Colonial militia under the command of their pastor refused to let the British troops pass |
| Yortown | The final battle of the Revolution, here Cornwallis surrendered his army as the French blocked his escape |
| Valley Forge | Continental army fought the cold of a Pennsylvania winter as the Prussian Von Stuben worked to make them into a fighting force. |
| Trenton | Hessians loose the battle on Christmas |
| Fort Ticonderoga | Fort is captured by Ethan Allen and Bendict Arnold |
| Saratoga | This New York town saw the first Continental victory, it was influencial in convincing the French to back the Americans |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England after Mary. Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Bolyn |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Explorer and scientist, favorite of Elizabeth |
| Robert the Bruce | Noble who rallied the Scots to defeat the English at Bannockburg in 1314 |
| General Gage | British General sent to enforce the Quartering Act in Boston |
| Lord North | Advisor to George III, responsible for the Quebec Act |
| Edmund Burke | Great orator and founder of the Whig party in England |
| Charles Townshend | Author of the Towshend Acts which taxed paper, lead and tea |
| James I | English King chosen by Elizabeth (his cousin) who had no heir |
| George III | English monarch prior and during the War for Independence |
| Lord Cornwallis | Commander who surrendered to General Washington to end the War for Independence |
| a group of Boston's shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for independence from Britain | Sons of Liberty |
| group formed under Washington after the Second Continental Congress | Continental Army |
| Delegates from the colonies who met in Philiadelphia | Continental Congress |
| Colonists who supported staying under British rule. | Loyalists or Tories |
| Volunteers who served under Ethan Allen to help seize the British fort at Ticonderoga | Green Mountain Boys |
| German mercenaries | Hessians |
| Group that boycotted Brittish goods causing British trade to drop of 35% | Daughters of Liberty |
| Organization developed under John Paul Jones | Grand American Navy |
| Patriot farmers and shop keepers that volunteered to defend the American colonists | Minutemen |
| the American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another. | Commitee of Corespondence |
| John Paul Jones | Naval hero who captured the Serapis |
| George Washington | General of the Continental Army |
| Lydia Darragh | American spy who tipped George Washing off to aid in the victory at Sarratoga |
| Francis Marion | Known as the Swamp Fox, the movie The Patriot is loosely based on his exploits |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman who joined the army as a volunteer, purchased uniform from his own purse |
| Abraham Whipple | Man who organized the American fleet |
| Ethan Allen | Leader of the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont |
| Alexander Hamilton | Known as the "Little Lion" was responsible for the victory at Princeton |
| Henry Lee | He conducted lightning raids against the British during the American Revolution |
| Crispus Attucks | First casualty of the fight for Independence |
| The oldest of the delegates, he had founded a library, started the volunteer fire department, authored, several works, invented the stove and bifocals | Benjamin Fraklin |
| Served the Continental Army as a spy. "I only regret that I have but One life to give for my country." | Nathan Hale |
| Firebrands who were considered he most outspoken for liberty | Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Paine. |
| Author of the American Crisis and Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Successful trader who not only spoke for liberty but paid the majority of the Congress' bills | John Hancock |
| Lead the dock workers at the Boston Massacre, He gave a great speech before he died. | Crispus Attucks |
| Penned the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Set up the American colonial manufacturing | George Washington and Richard Henry Lee |
| Outspoken Virginian who gave a rousing speech at the Stamp Act Congress. He stunned the crowd by ending his speech with give me liberty or give me death. | Patrick Henry |
| Lead forty to fifty men from Christ’s Church to stand against Major John Pitcairn at Lexington green | Captain John Parker |
| John Hancock | Owner of a Boston shipping company and a loud voice for liberty |
| Sam Adams | One of the "firebrands" considered the Father of American Independence |
| Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense and later the Rights of Man for the French |
| Richard Henry Lee | The man who propsed American Independence in the Continental Congress |
| Benjamin Franklin | Pennsylvania Delegate and the author of Poor Richard's almanac |
| Thomas Jefferson | Scientist and statesmen, penned the Declaration of Independence |
| Benedict Arnold | Colonel on the Continental army turned traitor, willing to give up West Pointe |
| Paul Revere | Silversmith who warned that the Britsh were coming |
| John Adams | Massachusetts delegate and lawyer who defended the British after the Boston Massacre |
| Dr. Joseph Warren | Important member of the Commitees of Corespondence, lost his life at the Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill |
| more than can be tolerated | intolerable |
| only one source of supply or service | monopoly |
| elected representatives with the power to speak for an area and vote | delegates |
| the idea that colonies existed for the benefit of the Mother Country. | merchantilism |
| elected governing body, established at the Magna Charta to share control of government with the King | parliament |
| Cruel and oppressive government or rule. | tyranny |
| a grant or guarantee of rights, franchises, or privileges from the sovereign power | charter |
| refusal to purchase items for political reasons | boycott |
| young men who delivered messages between the colonies | post rider |
| Make or shape by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it. | forge |
