| A | B |
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| French and Indian War | Fighting between France and England for the control of territory in North America |
| Proclamation of 1763 | stated that colonists could not move into the recently acquired territory from France located west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | tax on molasses in an attempt to stop illegal trade with foriegn nations. |
| Stamp Act | tax on most paper goods in the colinies such as newspapers, licenses, legal documents, and playing cards |
| Townshend Acts | tax on paint, lead, glass, and tea |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fire on a rowdy crowd of Boston citizens killing five colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | members of the Sons of Liberty refuse to accept the new tax on tea and destroy 342 chests of English tea |
| Intolerable Acts | passed by Parliament to punish the colonist for their civil disobedience, it closed Boston Harbor and revoked the charter of Massachusetts |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | the first engagement between the minutemen and British soldiers, it included the "shot heard round the world" |
| Olive Branch Petition | final effort by the First Continental Congress to establish peach with England |
| Thomas Paines' Common Sense | a widely read pamphlet that encourage support for colonial independence |
