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- militia
- army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
- William Johnson
- English trader and official that helped gain iroquois support
- Edward Braddock
- general that led the British and colonial troops in attack against Fort Duquesne
- Treaty of Paris
- document that brought the French and Indian war to an end
- committee of correspondence
- group of colonists who wrote letters and pamphlets reporting on British actions
- Sons of Liberty
- men formed to protest British policies
- George Washington
- virginian who fought the first battle of the French and Indian War
- John Adams
- used lawyer skills to argue for justice
- Proclimation of 1763
- war convinced British officials that they should stop British subjects from settling on the western frontier
- James Wolf
- French commander at Quebec
- repeal
- cancel; undo
- Mercy Otis Warren
- wrote plays criticizing British officials
- writt of assistance
- legal document that led a British customs officer inspect a ships cargo without reason
- Pontiacs War
- war that occured when Pontiac led an attack on British troops at Fort Detroit
- Marquis de Montcalm
- English commander at Quebec
- William Pitt
- head of the English government who focused on winning the war in North America
- Boston Massacre
- colonists protested.. crowds threw ice, etc at soldiers
- Samuel Adams
- behind scenes worker to organize protest
- nonimportant agreements
- agreements that promiced to stop importing goods taxed by Townshend Acts
- Stamp Act
- act that placed new duties on legal documents such as wills, diploma, etc.
- Tea Act
- act that led company bypass tea merchants
- petition
- formal request to someone in authority, usually written and signed by a group of people
- British East India Company
- company that brought tea and sold it to colonial merchants
- Townshend Acts
- laws that taxed goods
- First Continential Congress
- meeting that delegates from 12 colonies gathered in Philidelphia
- allies
- country or group that joined with another
- Albany Plan of Union
- document outlining the colonists' plan for a united government
- Patrick Henry
- delivered speeches that criticized British officials
- Plans of Abraham
- grassy field that British troops were drawn up on
- Hurons
- negotitators between french traders and other indian nations
- minuteman
- volunteer who trained to fight British
- Intolerable Acts
- laws that punished colonists
- Daughters of Liberty
- women joined and protested British policies
- Joseph Brant
- mohawk chief that became an ally for the English