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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The French and Indian War | A battle fought between the British and the French over dominance in the New World (America). The feud was between the two and the Iroquois Confederacy also, becuase America was their homeland. Also called the Seven Years War. (1754-1763) |
| The Sugar Act | An act passed by British Parliament to increase duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. (1764) |
| The Currency Act | An act passed by British Parliament to stop colonists from creating or distributing their own currency. (1764) |
| The Quartering Act | An act passed by British Parliament ordering colonists to provide food and housing for British soldiers whenever they needed it. (1765) |
| The Townshend Act | An act passed by British Parliament that put taxes on textiles such as glass, paper, tea, lead, and paint. (1767) |
| The Stamp Act | An act passed by British Parliament which required stamps to be purchased and put on paper products, such as newspapers, almanacs, legal documents, playing cards and pamphlets. (1765) |
| The Boston Massacre | A group of British soldiers, after being taunted, opened fire on a group of rioting colonists, who were doing such things like shouting and throwing rocks at them. Three dead, two wounded. (March 5th, 1770) |
| The Boston Tea Party | A revolt for the high tax on tea, a group of colonists, disguised as Native Americans and snuck aboard a British tea ship of the East India Company, and dumped all of the tea - 342 cartons. (December 16th, 1773) |
| The First Continental Congress | A revolutionary government made up of delegates from most of the American colonies which directed the war for independence. (September 5th, 1774 in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia) |
| The Battle of Lexington and Concord | British troops planned to stop riots by destroying ammunition at Concord. Paul Revere and William Dawes alerted the Minute Men and the two sides met at Lexington. The British were overpowered, but some ammunition was destroyed, along with some Americans and British dead. (April 19th, 1775) |
| The Battle of Bunker Hill | Americans began to fortify a hill against British forces, British ships opened fire on them. 2,400 British men arrived soon after and fought 1,000 americans. A valiant effort by the Americans, the fortification was lost after resisting several attacks. (June 12th, 1775) |
| The Stamp Act Congress | Delegates form nine colonies met to propose ways to fight back against the Stamp Act. (1765) |
| The Gaspée Affair | Under the leadership of John Brown, colonists attacked and burned a British custom cutter, which was ground right off of Providence, Rhode Island in protest against the chiefly British imports. (1772) |
| The Intolerable Acts | A series of British Parliamentary Acts put into effect to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party. They demanded that there must be payment for all the tea washed away, the closure of the Port of Boston for all ships, there would be no congregation of colonists, and that transfer will be provided to England all lawsuits against a British official. (1774) |
| The Quebec Act | An act passed by British Parliament which placed the Ohio Valley off limits to colonists, and put the entire area under Canadian government. This was a part of the Intolerable Acts. (1774) |
| The Navigation Acts | A series of British Parliamentary Acts which required colonists only to transport goods by British vessels, and that certain exports could only go to England. Imported goods must be purchased from England, or duties must be payed if purchased from a foreign nation. |
| The Writs of Assistance | A general search warrant for colonial homes, stores, warehouses, or any building on American property to search for smuggled goods. |
| The Proclamation of 1763 | An act passed by British Parliament stating that colonists or Native Americans were prohibited from settlement anywhere west of the Appalachian Mountains. (1763) |
| The Tea Act | An act passed by British Parliament which repealed the Townsend Acts, although a small tax was still placed on tea, and also gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea imports to the Colonies. (1773) |
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