| A | B |
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| Boston Tea Party | event which caused Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts |
| Stamp Act | first internal tax; required a tax on printed material |
| Proclamation of 1763 | no colonists could settle in the Ohio River Valley |
| George Grenville | British prime minister who proposed the Proclamation of 1763, stronger enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and the Stamp Act |
| Nathan Hale | before being hanged as a spy, said, "My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country." |
| George Rogers Clark | American general who won important victories in the west |
| Ethan Allen | leader of the Green Mountain Boys |
| Sam Adams | revolutionary who organized the Sons of Liberty |
| Bunker Hill | first major battle |
| Saratoga | turning point of the war because the French decided to join after the Americans won this battle |
| Hessians | German mercanaries |
| Paul Revere and William Dawes | warned the Patriots that the British were on their way to Lexington and Concord |
| Valley Forge | where American spent the winter of 1777-78 preparing for battle |
| Boston | place where Americans were massacred by Redcoat troops |
| Thomas Paine | published Common Sense, essays persuading Americans to join the Patriots |
| Cornwallis | surrendered to Washington |
| Second Continental Congress | governed the colonies during the Revolution |
| Patrick Henry | said, "Give me liberty or give me death." |
| John Paul Jones | American naval commander who said, "I have not yet begun to fight." |
| Albany Plan | Franklin's plan to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War (failed) |
| Pontiac | Indian chief who lead a rebellion to drive the British out of the Ohio River Valley |
| Townshend Acts | taxed paint, lead, paper, glass and tea |
| boycott | a refusal to buy; method of protesting British tax policies |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
| inalienable rights | life, liberty and property |
| loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain (one-third) |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | ended the Revolution; gave US everything east of the Mississppi except for Florida |
| Yorktown | where the surrender occurred |
| George III | king of Great Britain to whom the Declaration is addressed |
| Sugar Act | reduced tax on foreign sugar and molasses but povided for stronger enforcement of the Navigation Acts |
| Tea Act | gave the East India Company a monopoly on the colonial tea trade |
| Quartering Act | required the colonists to house Redcoat troops |
| Sons of Liberty | group of Patriots formed to organize resistance to the British |
| mercantilism | economic policy where a nation tries to gain great wealth and power by maintainig a favorable balance of trade |
| favorable balance of trade | exporting more than you import |
