| Term | Definition |
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| French and Indian War | this struggle between the British and the French in the colonies of the North America was part of a worldwide war known as the Seven Years' War. The British and American colonists defeated the French giving Great Britain control of North America but leaving them with heavy debts. |
| The Stamp Act | Put a tax on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and even dice. All of those items had to carry a stamp that the tax had been paid. This act led to protests. |
| salutary neglect | British colonial policy during the reigns of George I and George II. relaxed supervision of internal colonial affairs by royal bureacrats contributed significantly to the rise of American self government |
| boycott | a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies |
| Townshend Acts | A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Committees established by the First Continental Congress in which colonists would exchange ideas and information with other colonies. They organized petitions to King George III to try and abolish policies they believed were unfair. |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British |
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