A | B |
Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty, or give me death" |
Tom Hutchinson | Governor of Massachusetts |
Thomas Gage | British commander in Boston |
Crispus Attucks | First man killed in the Boston riot also was a free black man |
George III | King of England |
James Wolfe | captured Ft. Quebec |
George Washington | started the French and Indian War |
Governor Dinwiddie | sent Washington to keep French out of PA |
Sam Adams | rabble rouser for the American Revolution and leader of the Sons of Liberty |
Lord North | Prime minister at time of Revolution |
George Grenville | prime minister who passed Stamp Act |
William Pitt | Pittsburgh was named after him |
John Adams | defended soldiers who where in Boston massacre |
Paul Revere | famous for his midnight ride |
Boston massacre | event where British soldiers killed civillians |
The Seven Years War | British name for the French and Indian War |
Tyrant | synonym for an oppressor |
Declartory Act | act that said that parliament could make any law they wanted |
Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited settlers from crossing the Appalacians |
Parliament | British law-making body |
Intolerable Acts | coercive acts |
Stamp Act | Act that placed a tax on paper and all printed materials |
Sugar Act | put tax on molasses, sugar, and coffee |
Tea Act | act that placed a tax on tea |
Sons of Liberty | group that instigated Boston tea party |
Comittees of Correspondance | group that spread news about the tea tax |
Fort Pitt | Pittsburgh |
Boycott | decision to not buy a product as a form of protest |
martyr | someone who dies for a cause |
Monopoly | control over an industry |
East India Company | Tea company |
Navigation Acts | certain goods could only be sold to Gt. Britain |
Taxation w/out representation | major colonial protest concerned with voting and taxes |
Fort Quebec | gateway to the Great Lakes |
patriot | someone who is proud of and defends their country |