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| Enlightenment | period in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries when new ideas emerged about the rights of people and their relationship to their rulers |
| consent | permission to do something |
| Sugar Act | law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies, in order to pay England's debt from the French & Indian War |
| Stamp Act | A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies |
| Townshend Acts | series of laws passed by Parliament, creating duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass |
| Boston Massacre | A crowd of colonists protested against British customs agents (tax collectors) and the presence of British troops in Boston. Violence flared and five colonists were killed. |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor. |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British, especially the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | delegates from twelve colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts |
| Second Continental Congress | meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia who managed the colonial war effort during the American Revolution, raised armies, directed strategies and eventually adopted the Declaration of Independence |
| Lexington and Concord | first battle of the American Revolution |
| Patriots | group of colonists during the Revolutionary War who believed in complete independence from Britain |
| Loyalists | group of colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War because of cultural and economic ties |
| Neutrals | group of colonists who tried to stay as uninvolved in the Revolutionary War as possible |
| Yorktown | the final battle of the American Revolution, where Cornwallis surrendered to end the War. |
| Treaty of Paris (1783) | treaty that ended the American Revolution, recognizing American Independence and granting land to the newly formed United States |
| natural rights | rights every person is born with, cannot ever be taken away |
| Proclamation of 1763 | issued after the end of the French and Indian War by King George III, prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
