| A | B |
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| Sugar Act 1764/Stamp Act 1765 | Britian begins enforcing import tax on foreign sugar, molassess, and other items |
| Townshed Acts | Britian fixes duties on lead, tea, glass and dyes. Issues writs of assistance |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers open fire on crowd and kill five colonists |
| Massachusetts Governors on payroll by King George III | British attempt to gain control of colonial government |
| Tea act of 1773 | British Law excuses British East India co. from paying certain duties and allows them to bypass wholesalers |
| Intolerable Acts of 1774 | British close part of the Boston Harbor; revoke Massachusettes charter; forbids town meetings |
| Quebec Act | Brtian extends its Canadian boundaries. Overiding the claims of Mass. , VA., CT. |
| The Shot heard around the world | A shot is fired, British troops kill colonists |
| Cohersive Acts | Forbade town meetings |
| Olive Branch Petition | Last attempt to avoid a permanent break with Great Britain |
| Quartering Act | Required colonies provide money for feeding and sheltering of British soldiers |
| Proclamation of 1763 | barred settlements weat of the Appalachians |
| Loyalists | Tories |
| Rebelling against the King was like rebelling against God | Loyalists |
| Delaware Prophet | Neolin |
| Commander, Continental Army | George Washington |
| "The British are Commining" | Dawes, Revere, Prescott |
| Loyalists | Believed that rebelling against the King was like rebelling against God |
| British troops slowed down by swaps and hills | British lost at Saratoga because |
| Abigail Adams | did not support Loyalists goals |
| loss of British markest | created the depression that started in 1784 |
| How many amendments are in the constitution | 27 |
| USA ill prepared for war of 1812 | poorly equipped Army |
| Whiskey Rebellion | protest against federal taxes on whiskey |
| Prohibited U.S. Trade w/Great Britian and France | Non-Intercourse act |
| Committee of Correspondence | inform the world about British oppression |
| writs of assistance | warrents issued to search for smuggled goods |
| Breed's hill | battle in 1775 |
| impressement | kidnapping of American Sailors |
| Declaratory Act | Declaration by the British Parliament... repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to make laws binding on the American colonies. |
| Stamp Act | law enacted by a government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents such as property deeds. |
| Sugar act of 1764 | It revised the earlier Sugar and Molasses Act, which had imposed a tax of sixpence per gallon on molasses in order to make English products cheaper than those from the French West Indies. |
| Quartering act | provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in America first in barracks and public houses, |
| Richard Henry Lee | "These united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent States..." |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| Thomas Jefferson | Third President |
| Patrick Herny | "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Slavery was prohibited | Northwest Territory |
| Quebec act | Full rights to Roman Catholics |
| Battles of Concord and Lexington | first military clashes of the Revoultionary war |
| Sons of liberty | Protested stamp act |
| Depression | high unemployment rates |
| John Adams | Second President |
| George Washington | Only six star general in the U.S. Promoted by Jimmy Carter |
| Treat of Paris 1763 | Ended the seven year war |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Ended the American Revolution |
| Article one | Legislative |
| Georgia | Social Experiment |
| Golden Palaces in Asia | Marco Polo |
| General-in-charge | William Pitt |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Member of Washington's staff |
| Bacon's Rebellion | Want of Indian Land |
| Slave route | Middle Passage |
| Yorktown | Important Cornwallis defeat |
| oldest city established by Europeans | St. Augustine |
| Roanoke | "Lost Colony" |
| New England way | cooperation between church and state |
| Quakers | Protestant sect |
| First written colonial constitution | Fundamental orders of Connecticut |
| Crotoan | Island off the coast |
| Inflation | increasing prices |
| Illinois Country | George Rogers Clarke |
| taught settlers how to cultivate corn | Powhatan |
| Victory in the West | Vincennes |
| Neolin | Delaware Prophet |
| Saratoga failed because | Burgoyne's troops slowed by swamps and hills |
| Purtians | Oliver Cromwell |
| "Holy Experiment" | Pennsylvania |
| Human reason | Enlightenment |
| La Salle | Mississippi River 1600's |
| Source of conflict w/ American Indians | Tobacco |
| Loyalists | Tories |
| Squanto | Wampanoag-Thanksgiving |
| Swamp Fox | Marion |
| Taxed printed Material | Stamp Act |
| barred settlement west of Appalachians | Quebec act |
| Lost Colony | Ronake |
| Massachusetts Bay | Puritans, who hoped to set up a model Christian community |
| tobacco | main crop of the Chesapeake |
| Connecticut | Thomas Hooker |
| New York | First a duke, then a King |
| Flordia | Spanish |
| Maryland | Catholics |
| The Carolinas | eight supporters of King Charles II |
| Georgia | Social Experiment |
| Jamestown | 1607 |
| Pennsylvania | Quakers |
| separatist | a person who broke from the Anglican Church |
| pilgrims | protestants who wished to "purify" the anglican church of all catholic rituals |
| mayflower Compact | The original members of the Plymouth colony created a document to maintain order and establish law |
| Great Migration | 1630 purtains fled England to escape enomic ruin and regilious persecution |
| Toleration act of 1649 | protect Catholic minority's rights |
| remarry | high Cheaspeak death rights caused may people to |
| Bacon's Rebellion | settlers want for more land caused the action know as |
| Middle Passage | slave journsy across the Atlantic ocean |
| Olaudah Equaino's autobiography | convinced many people that slavery was wrong |
| Quakers | protest sect that rejected wealth and slavery |
| abolitionists | wanted slavery to end |
| Plymouth Colony | Pilgrims |
