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| Pontiac | an Indian chief who tried to drive settlers back across the Appalachian Mountains |
| Proclamation of 1763 | closed the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to newcomers |
| "No Taxation without Representation" | colonists felt that they should not be taxed unless they had a say in the government |
| Boston Massacre | a riot in Boston that broke out over the colonists' anger at the number of Redcoats in Boston |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | punished Boston for the tea party by closing Boston Harbor |
| minutemen | colonial soldiers |
| Redcoats | British soldiers |
| Lexington | 1st battle of the American Revolution |
| George Washington | leader of the Continental army |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" |
| Tories | colonists who supported the British |
| France | helped the Americans win their independence from England |
| Yorktown | where the British surrendered |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to house and supply British soldiers |
| Writs of Assistance | allowed illegal searches |
| Townsend Act | placed taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea |
| Tea Act | allowed the British Tea Companies to sell tea directly to the colonists- this hurt merchants |
| Committees of Correspondence | an informal government to the colonists- shared information about resistance to the British |
