- 2nd Continental Congress: a meeting of colonis to duscuss tension between British and colonies
- Anglican church: 1758- Church of GA
- apprentice: followed a craftsman's instrucions to learn how to do a certain job
- Articles of Confederation: 1st US Constitution
- Battle of Kettle Creek: turning point of war in GA
- Battle of Yorktown: clarke took Augusta from British
- Boston Massacre: soldiers fired at citizens because they threw snowballs at them
- Boston Tea Party: patriots dressed as Mowhawk Indians dumped tea into Boston Bay
- boycott: a protest where people refuse to buy certain items
- Clarke: leader Ga militia
- Common Sense: pamphlet by Payne
- crackers: undesirable people
- Dabney: mulatto who saved Clarke's life
- Declaration of Independence: stated freedom of colonies from British rule
- education: only boys can attend school
- effigy: a likeness
- French and Indian War: France and Great Britain over Ohio RIver Valley area
- Gazzette: GA's only newspaper
- Hall, Walton, and Gwinnett: GA signers of Declaration of Independence
- Hart: only women who has a county named after her in Georgia
- Intolerable Acts: 4 laws by Parliament
- Jones: speaker for colonial assembly
- Liberty Boys: a group who opposed Stamp Act
- May 1777: adopted 1st state constitution
- Middle Colonies: middle colonies (NY) "breadbasket colony"
- Navigation Act: colonies only ship goods on British vessels
- New England Colonies: northern colonies
- parish: church and British government district
- Proclamation of 1763: can't settle west of Appalachians
- proprietary colony: governed by a trustees
- Puritans: a group of people who broke away from the Church of England
- Quartering Acts: citizens had to house soldiers at their own expense
- ratify: approve
- REW: Reynolds, Ellis, Ohio
- royal colony: governed by the king
- siege: soldier wait a city out
- Southern Colonies: includes Georgia
- Stamp Act: a tax on printed documents
- Sugar Act: a tax on sugar and molasses
- tariffs: tax on imported goods
- Tories: loyal to king of England
- Townsend Acts: import taxs on tea paper glass and paint coloring
- transportation: slow; didn't stray far from town
- Treaty of paris #1: 1763- formally ended the war
- Washington: warned French Ohio Valley wasn't theirs
- whigs: citizens ready to break ties with Britain