| A | B |
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| Navigation Acts | the colonies paid more for imports and received less money for their exports and all cargo carrying ships had to be English ships |
| salutary neglect | non-interference; it was too difficult for England to control the colonies which were 3,000 miles away |
| George Washington | fought in the French & Indian War & was commander-in-chief during the Revolutionary War |
| Virginia Militia | a group of civilians trained as soldiers to fight in emergencies |
| French & Indian War 1754-1763 | The war between France and England over the North America - English eventually won |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | England obtained all of Canada and all the land east of the Mississippi River |
| William Pitt | England's Prime Minister of War |
| James Wolfe | British commander who took Fort Quebec |
| Proclamation of 1763 | this ended all settlement west of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Chief Pontiac | Chief of the Ottawa people - he formed a confederacy in the Ohio Valley |
| George Greenville | England's Prime Minister of Finance - he required customs officers to live at their posts in America |
| Writs of Assistance | gereranl search warrants to look for smuggled goods |
| The Sugar Act | a tax on sugar imports - this would wipe out the colonist's profits |
| specie | gold and silver coins |
| The Stamp Act | England placed a tax on all documents - money raised was used to pay for British soldiers in America |
| boycott | refusal to boy British goods |
| The Townsend Acts | a tax placed on imports (paper, tea, glass, paint) |
| Redcoats | another name for British soldiers |
| "No taxation without representation" | no colonists were represented in the British Parliament |
| The Stamp Act Congress | organized a boycott of British made goods |
| Patrick Henry | (Virginia delegate) "Give me liberty or give me death". |
| Sons of Liberty | led by Samuel Adams - carried out organized resistance - kept watch on shopkeepers who were selling British goods |
| Daughters of Liberty | (Mercy Otis Warren) colonial women boycotted British goods |
| The Boston Massacre | first clash between British and Americans - 5 colonists were killed on March 5, 1770 |
| Crispus Attucks | he was killed at the Boston Massacre - African American who gave his life in the name of liberty |
| Tea Act of 1773 | this gave the British India Tea Company a monopoly on the tea trade in the colonies |
| The Intolerable Acts | closed the port of Boston |
| The Intolerable Acts | British officials accused of a crime in America were tried in England |
| The Intolerable Acts | British troops could be quartered in any town in Massachuettes |
| The Intolerable Acts | Massachuettes charter was revoked - no more self-government |
| The First Continental Congress | met September 1774; petitioned the King of England for relief from The Intolerable Acts |
| Lexington & Concord | two towns in Massachuettes where fighting took place betweent the colonists and the British |
| Paul Revere & William Dawes | these two men alerted the colonists that the British were coming |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | a "moral victory" for the colonists - untrained militia stood up to the professional British soldiers |
| Second Continental Congress | met May 1775 - this Congress assumed the powers of a central government |
| Second Continental Congress | hoped for peace, but prepared for war |
| Second Continental Congress | sent a letter to the King of England to ask for peace |
| Second Continental Congress | created a continental army |
| Second Continental Congress | chose George Washington to lead the American troops against England |
