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Causes of the French and Indian War

1. Colonial rivalries btwn. Great Britain and France. 2. France and Great Britain traded with different Native American groups for fur. 3. france and Great Britain arm the Native Americans. 4. Disputed land claims in Ohio River Valley (both sides wanted the same fur-rich land)

Treaty of Paris 1763

Ended French and Indian War, France lost Canada, land east of the Mississippi, to British, New Orleans and west of Mississippi to Spain

Proclamation of 1763

An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

William Pitt

English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)

George Washington

fought for England in French and Indian War

Pontiac's Rebellion

1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed.

Molasses Act

A British law passed in 1773 to change a trade pattern in the American colonies by taxing molasses imported into colonies not ruled by Britain. Americans responded to this attempt to damage their international trade by bribing and smuggling. Their protest of this and other laws led to revolution.

Sugar Act

law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies

American Revenues Act

passed as part of Treaty of Paris.

Declaratory Act

Act passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever."

Townshend Acts

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

Tea Act 1773

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacre

The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans

Crispus Attucks

A free black man who was the first person killed in the Revolution at the Boston Massacre.

Christopher Seider

Child colonists who died in a misfire into a crowd of radical patriots protesting. Patriots used his funeral as a way of promoting anger against the British.

Sam Adams

A member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence.

Paul Revere

American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

William Dawes

American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)

Samuel Prescott

The patriot, along with William Dawes and Paul Revere, warned the colonists that the British were coming before Lexington and Concord.

Thomas Gage

British general who controlled Boston following the Boston Tea Party.

Quartering Act

1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Suffolk Resolves

The First Continental Congress endorsed Massachusetts's Suffolk Resolves, which declared that the colonies need not obey the 1773 Coercive Acts, since they infringed upon basic liberties.

James Otis

"Taxation without representation is tyranny"

Lexington MA

The place where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired

Concord MA

where the colonists kept their ammunition and guns, British attacked this spot

Boston Tea Party

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

Coercive Acts

1. port act closed the port of boston until the tea was paid for. 2. MA Gov't act reduced the power of the MA legislature while increasing the power of the royal governor. 3. Allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in England instead of the colonies. 4. expanded the quartering act to enable british troops to be quartered in private homes--applied to all colonies.

Intolerable Acts

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British

Civil Disobedience

A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.

East India Company

An English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia.

King George III

King of England during the American Revolution

Patrick Henry

a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)

Stamp Act

1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.