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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 George Washington | warned the French to leave the Ohio Valley |
| King George III | British king at the start of the American Revolutionary War |
| Edward Braddock | stubborn commander of British forces during the French and Indian war |
| George Grenville | British prime minister who placed a tax on molasses and legal documents |
| William Pitt | was sent to North America to win the French and Indian war |
| John Adams | lawyer thatv defended the British soilders who were involved in the Boston Massacre |
| Ben Franklin | proposed the Albany plan of Union |
| Pontiac | Indian Cheif who attacked British forts in the Ohio Valley |
| Louis Montcalm | French General who died in the battle of Quebec |
| James Wolf | led British forces into Quebec |
| Huron Indians | Tribe that helped the French in the French and Indian war |
| Iroquois Indians | tribe that helped the English in the French and indian war |
| Samuel Adams | a son of liberty that helped unite the colonies |
| Fort Duquesne | became Fort Pitt after it was captured by the British |
| Fort Necessity | make shift fort built by George Washington |
| Louisbourg | fort that Jeffrey Amherst captured |
| Quebec | capital of New France |
| Ohio Valley | where most French forts were located |
| non- importation agreements | respobse to which the colonists said they would stop importing goods from England |
| Taxation without Representation | was said by the colonsits because Pafrliment passed these laws without their vote |
| First Continental Congress | when delagates gathered in Philadelphia in 1774 |
| Writs of Assistance | alowed official to search cargo |
| Committee of Correspondance | organized by Sam Adams and sent letters and pamphlets to the colonies |
| Treaty of Paris | 1st event on the road to revolution |
| Proclamation of 1763 | stopped colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Pontiacs War | fighting between the colonists and the indians after the signing of the Treaty of Paris |
| Lexington and Concord | first shots fired in the American Revolution |
| Stamp act | a tax on legal papers, playing cards, ect. |
| stamp act congress | delagates wrote up petitions to stop the taxes |
| sugar act | tax on mollasses and sugar |
| tea | was not repealed when the other goods were |
| townshend acts | a tax on tea, lead, paint, galss, and cloth |
| Quartering act | citizens had to provide housing and other necessities to British soilders |
| Intolerable acts | a series of punishments giving to Mass after the Boston Tea Party |
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