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Great Britain
French-Indian
War
1755-1763
What does it mean?
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1701-1801
England and Scotland
Seven years war between Great Britain
and France over ownership of the Ohio
River Valley,(KY)
Patriots
Americans who believed that the colonies
had the right to govern themselves.
Loyalists
Americans who felt a deep loyalty to Great
Britain
Allies
Nations that join together in some common
effort such as war.
Militia
A small army made up of ordinary citizens
who are available to fight in an emergency.
Pontiac’s War
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Ottawa Chief- A war launched in 1763 by
North American Indians in the Great Lakes
Region against the British after the French
and Indian War. Native Americans feared
the British would take their lands.
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Proclamation
Of
1763
Tyrant
Writs of
Assistance
Stamp Act
Rutledge
King George III proclaimed that the
English settlers were to stay east of the
Appalachian Mountains and the Native
Americans were to stay west of the
Appalachian Mountains.
One who unjustly uses his government
powers.
1764 – Legal documents that enabled
British soldiers to search colonists’ homes
and warehouses for smuggled goods.
1765- British law which required colonists
to buy a stamp for every piece of paper
they used. EX. Newspaper, wills, licenses, &
playing cards.
Phrase used by colonists to describe their
feelings about the new taxes passed by
“Taxation
British Parliament. Colonists were being
Without
Representation” taxed by Parliament in which they had no
representation.
Sons of
Liberty
Secret organization of American patriots
which organized protests against British
laws in the colonies.
Effigies
Rag figure representing unpopular tax
collectors.
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To take back or cancel a law.
Repeal
Quartering
Act
Townshend
Acts
Duty
Daughters
Of
Liberty
Boston
Massacre
Propaganda
Tea Act
1765 - Required colonial assemblies to
provide British troops with housing.
1767- Laws which placed a tax on certain
goods the colonies imported from Great
Britain. Ex. Glass, paint, paper, and TEA
TAX.
American patriot women who protested
the Townshend Acts by making their
clothes from homespun cloth, brewed
tea from pine needles, & bought only
American made goods.
March 5, 1770 – A small group of British
soldiers came under attack by a mob
throwing insults, rocks, and snowballs.
British soldiers shot into the crowd in
self-defense killing Crispus Attucks, an
African-American dockworker.
Information designed to influence
opinion.
1773- British law passed in order to
save the British East India Company
(BEIC) from going broke. BEIC did not
have to pay the tea tax and could sell
its tea directly to certain shopkeepers
at a low price. It was the ONLY tea the
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colonists could buy.
Boston
Tea
Party
Intolerable
Acts
Petition
First
Continental
Congress
‘Shot Heard
‘Round the
World’
December 16, 1773 – In protest of the
Tea Act, Sons of Liberty dressed as
Native Americans dumped several
chests of British East India Company’s
tea into Boston Harbor.
1774 – New set of laws designed to
punish Boston, Massachusetts for the
tea that was destroyed. 1.Closed
Boston Harbor. 2. Massachusetts
government under British control,
and3.sent more soldiers to
Massachusetts.
Make a formal request of the
government.
September 1774 – 50 leaders from 12
colonies met in Philadelphia. They
agreed to send a message to King
George III listing all mistakes the
British government had made in the
colonies.
April 1775 – Refers to the first shots
fired at the battle of Lexington,
Massachusetts. This is the beginning of
the American Revolution.
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