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