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| John Hancock | Leader of rebels to be seized by British troops in Lexington, along with Samuel Adams. |
| Lord North | Prime minister of King George III in 1770. |
| George Grenville | Prime minister; ordered the British navy to enforce the Navigation Laws; secured the Sugar Act of 1764; imposed the Stamp Act. |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of rebels to be seized by British troops in Lexington, along with John Hancock; leading spirit in Boston Teach Party; member of the First Continental Congress; formed the committees of correspondence. |
| Charles Townshend | Controlled the British ministry; promised to get colonies under control with Townshend Acts in 1767. |
| John Adams | Member of the Continental Congress in 1774. |
| Crispus Attucks | One of the first to die in the Boston Massacre; a runaway "mulatto" and leader of the mob. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Frenchman who fought in the revolution, and brought ideas back to the French for their revloution. |
| King George III | King of England when war broke out with the colonies. |
| Baron von Steuben | Organizational genius; didn't know English when reached America, but able to teach the Americans how to fight. |
| "no taxation without representation" | Cry of coloinials who felt the Stamp Act (and the Sugar Act) were unfairly taxing them, since they weren't being represented in Parlaiment. |
| nonimportation agreement | Americans didn't use British goods; instead made their own clothes. |
| internal/external taxation | Internatl tax is applied to directly to colonists; external is for their protection or to regulate trade. |
| "virtual" representation | The British defense that Americans were being represented like many British citizens because the Parliament members had the interests of everyone at heart. |
| boycott | Organized opposition where people don't buy something that they're against. |
| Sons of Liberty | Group of colonists who took the law into their hands, enforcing the nonimportation agreements against violators via mobs. |
| Quebec Act | Passed in 1774; guaranteed the French their Catholic religion and permitted them to retain their old customs; boundaries of Quebec extended South into the Ohio River. |
| Navigation Acts | Laws that only British shps could transport goods; enforced by Lord Norht and several committees. |
| Declatory Act | Proclaimed that Parliament had the right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever. |
| Sugar Act | Passed in 1764 by Parliament (and George Grenvillle); increased tax on imported sugar from West Indies. |
| Townshend Acts | Added a light duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea; paid salaries of the royal governors and judges from revenues; revived nonimportation agreements. |
| Quartering Act | Passed in 1765, required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. |
| Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770; mob surrounded troops, troops fired, eleven wounded or killed. |
| The Association | Called for complete boycott of British good: nonimportation, nonexportation, nonconsumption. The document, called the Association, was like a constitution for the colonies (since it united them). Created by the Continental Congress. |
| Stamp Act | 1765, passed by Grenville; tax on all paper goods; caused a lot of protest. Repealed in 1766, with the acceptance of the Declaration Act. |
| committees of correspondence | Formed by Samuel Adams; first one formed in Boston in 1772. Function was to spread propaganda and information via letters; eighty towns in Boston followed his lead; Virginia's version was the House of Burgesses. |
| Hessians | Germans hired to fight for the British; thirty thousand were employed for the war with the colonies. |
| Boston Tea Party | Townsmen disguised as Indians boarded the ships and dumped the tea into the ahrbor. |
| Stamp Act Congress | 1765; twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies; drew up statement of their rights and grievances and asked for the Stamp Act to be repealed. |
| Intolerable Acts | A series of acts, such as the Boston Port Act, which restricted the Americans. |
| "Continental" | Referring to the American colonies. |
