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Glossary of 7th grade review
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- Boston Massacre (1770)
- the killing of five colonist in Boston by British soldiers led by Captain Thomas Preston.
- Boston Tea Party
- reaction of colonist in Boston against tea taxes imposed by the British. The colonist, dressed as Indian, boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor
- Colony
- a territory controlled by a more powerful country
- Declaration of Independence
- document written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the United States as an independent nation, and stating that all men have the basic rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- First Continental Congress (1744)
- meeting of representatives of all colonies, except Georgia, in Philadelphia, in response to the Intolerable Acts imposed on the colonist by Great Britain.
- Intolerable Acts
- series of harsh laws imposed by the British on the American colonies to assert control and raise revenues.
- Loyalists
- colonists who remained loyal to England during the Revolutionary War.
- Natural Rights
- liberties granted by God to which all people are entitled as human beings; first discussed by John Locke, these rights include life, liberty, and property.
- Stamp Act (1765)
- British law imposing a tax, in the form of stamps, on all legal and printed documents used in the English colonies.
