| A | B |
|---|
| Phillis Wheatley | African-born poet |
| Anne Dudley Bradstreet | wrote the first American book on poetry |
| Benjamin Franklin | Philadelphia printer and inventor |
| John Locke | wrote about the social contract between people and their government |
| Jonathan Edwards | preacher from Massachusetts |
| Ohio Valley | located between the Appalachain Mountains and the Great Lakes |
| George Washington | major of the Virginia militia |
| Fort Necessity | where Virginia militia was captured |
| Edward Braddock | tried European battle tactics in America |
| James Wolfe | led British troops in a battle to capture Quebec |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachain Mountains |
| Stamp Act | Parliament's first direct tax on the colonies |
| Townshend Acts | placed imprt tax on tea and other goods |
| Lord North | prime minister of Great Britain who tried to improve relations with the colonies |
| Patrick Henry | spoke out against the Stamp Act |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who delivered the Suffolk Resolves |
| John Hancock | Boston merchant who the British wanted to arrest |
| William Dawes | waited with Paul Revere to warn of the British invasion |
| village green | where Massachusetts militia drilled |
| North Church | signal tower to warn of British invasion |
