| Metacomet | Wampanoag leader who led American Indian groups in King Philip's War |
| militia | body of civilians serving as soldiers |
| casualties | people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war |
| backcountry | frontier region between the colonies' coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains |
| Pontiac | Ottawa leader who led the American Indians against the British |
| boycott | refusal to buy certain goods |
| Samuel Adams | person whose ideas helped inspire the slogan "No taxation without representation" |
| writs of assistance | special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods |
| Sugar Act | law intended to raise money in the colonies |
| propaganda | stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| Sons of Liberty | secret group of people who used violence to protest taxes |
| Patrick Henry | tried to use politics in the House of Burgesses to revoke the Stamp Act |
| House of Burgesses | a group of representatives in Virginia who helped pass laws and communicated between the King of Britain and colonists |
| Albany Plan of Union | written by Benjamin Franklin, called for all the colonies except Georgia to unite |
| attacking British forts | in the 1760s Ottawa leader Pontiac and his followers rebelled by _______________ |
| Ohio River valley | Pioneers crossed the Appalachians to settle in the _____________ because there were large forests, rich soil, and abundant game in the region. |
| Edward Braddock | led the British forces in North America in the Seven Years' War |
| Townshend Acts | placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea |
| Stamp Act | George Grenville proposed in 1765 when the colonists failed to suggest an alternate plan for paying taxes |
| Patrick Henry | colonist who preseented resolutions to the House of Burgesses in May 1765, insisting that the Stamp Act was unjust |
| Daughters of Liberty | Women's groups that supported boycotts of British goods were called the |
| George Grenville | the prime minister who decided to tax the colonists to pay Great Britain's heavy debts from the French and Indian War |
| Boston Massacre | occured after a British guard argued with angry colonists |
| Fort Necessity | place where George Washington was beat during the French and Indian War |
| colonial delegates | While _____________ were writing the Albany Plan of Union, George Washington and his troops were fighting the French in the Ohio River valley. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | agreement between Britain and American Indians to STOP colonial settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Appalachian Mountains | the line from the Proclamation of 1763 was geographically located by the _________________ |
| Committees of Correspondence | ______________ shared ideas and information with groups in other colonial towns about British laws and ways to challenge them |
| tar and feather | a violent method used by the Sons of Liberty to stop tax collection |
| Boston Tea Party | _______________ led Parliament to pass laws to punish Massachusetts |