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| A system in which trade with a colony is carefully controlled to gain wealth for a mother country | Mercantilism |
| The war for American independence fought between England and the American colonies | American Revolution |
| Tax placed on paper goods by English in an effort to tax the colonies | Stamp Act |
| Places duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paper and tea | Townshend Acts |
| Tax placed on tea sent to the colonies by England | Tea Act |
| Called the Coercive Acts by the British. They were aimed at forcing the colonies to obey the King. (Closed Boston Harbor, dismissed Boston's charter, forced colonies to quarter soldiers and made British General Gage governor of Massachusetts | Intolerable Acts |
| Forbid the colonies from claiming land west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was meant to protect the colonies, instead it angered them | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Author of the pamphlet Common Sense. It raised common sense arguments for independence like "How can an island rule a country?" | Thomas Paine |
| Colonists who supported the cause of independence from England | Patriots |
| Colonists who supported the King and did not want to break from England | Loyalists |
| The Father of our country, leader of the Continental Army and first President of the United States | George Washington |
| Author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Colonial General who was a traitor to the cause of independence. Hero at the victory at Fort Ticonderoga | Benedict Arnold |
| Colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest to Britain's attempt to tax the colonies | Boston Tea Party |
| The last major battle of the American Revolution. A colonial army and French forces defeat the British under General Cornwallis | Yorktown |
| Document written by Thomas Jefferson in which America declares its independence from Great Britain | Declaration of Independece |
| Created in Massachusetts, these groups helped towns and colonies share information about resisting British laws | Committees of Correspondence |
| The turning point of the American Revolution. A victory for colonial forces. It convinced the French that the colonists could win and helped them decide to join the colonial cause | Battle of Saratoga |
| American colonial leader in the West. He formed groups to fight the British, including the Over Mountain Men | George Rogers Clark |
| Mountains that formed the Western border of the colonies as determined by the Proclamation of 1763 | Appalachian Mountains |
| Fort in New York state, taken by General Benedict Arnold. It gave the colonists much needed supplies | Fort Ticonderoga |
| Secret Society that was formed in support of the colonial effort. They sometimes used violence to threaten British tax collectors. (also responsible for the Boston Tea Party) | Sons of Liberty |
| Colonial leader and President of the Second Continental Congress. He is well known for signing his name very large on the Declaration | John Hancock |
| Representative of Virginia at the first Continental Congress. He uttered the famous words "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
| Colonial leader, founder of the Committees of Correspondence, led the agitation that caused the Boston Tea Party, signed the Declaration of Independence | Samuel Adams |
| Philosopher, scientist, inventor, writer, publisher and member of the committee that drafted the Constitution | Benjamin Franklin |
| American business men who traded American goods for British and African goods using the Triangular Trade | American merchants |
| Site of colonial conflict with Indian tribes as colonists moved West. It resulted in the Proclamation of 1763 which forbid expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains | Ohio River Valley |
| Why did the British recruit slaves? | The British recruited slaves in their campaign in the South because they throught the slaves would willingly join them to help defeat the colonies. |
| Occurs when countries in different parts of the world are dependent on each other for resources or materials | Global Interdependence |
| Occurs when a country needs another country to survive or for resources | Dependence |
| The Battle in which Goerge Washington crossed the Deleware and defeated German soldiers on Christmas Day | Battle of Trenton |
| The site of a long winter stay for the patriots | Valley Forge |
| The first two battles of the Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord |
| The river that serves as a major source of transportation for the middle of America | The Misissippi River |
| German mercanaries that fought for the British | Hessians |
| war fought between the British and the French and Indians for the Ohio River Valley | French and Indian War |
| Patriot that warned fo the British advance at the start of the Revolutionary War. | Paul Revere |
| Slogan for the colonist that became the rallying cry for the Patriots | "No taxation without representation" |
| Act that required the colonist to keep British soldiers in their home. | Quatering Act |
| When British soldiers fired on civilians outside a customs house in Boston. It helped spark the start of the American Revolution | The Boston Massacre |
| A news paper article written to convince people to think acertain way about an incident | Propaganda |
| The first major battle of the Revolutionary war. It left 2000 Britsh soldiers dead or dying. | Bunker Hill |
| Leader of the Sons of Liberty. | Samuel Adams |
