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French and indian war
War from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy
in North Carolina (caused colonial heavy taxation-led to American revolution) -
Proclamation of 1763
British statement that colonists could not settle west of the
Appalachian. mountains -
Sugar act
a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market -
Stamp act
British law placing a tax on printed colonial matter: paper products -
Quartering act
British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of
British soldiers—3rd amendment protects Americans from this. -
Townshend act
were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America -
Boston massacre
Violent confrontation between British troops and colonist -
Tea act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive. -
Boston tea party
Protests by the Sons of Liberty against the British. Colonists
dressed up as Indians and threw tea overboard. Led by Samuel
Adams -
Coercive acts
British laws in response to the Boston Tea Party (took away the
colonists’ civil rights) -
First continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 -
Shot heard around the world
A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord -
Second continental congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
common sense
Written by Thomas Paine, that called for independence from
Great Britain. -
Declaration of independence
is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain