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- Treaty of paris in 1763
- France gave up its claims in canada and all lands east of the mississippi river
- Trans-atlantic trade
- which they shipped many of the colonies products and raw materials to england and places like the west indies
- Sons of liberty
- secret society made mostly of lawyers, artisans, & merchants
- Yorktown
- in 1781 during the American Revolution the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops
- Thomas pain
- Published the famous pamphlet common sense
- Marquis de lafayette
- French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
- committiees of correspondence
- they made sure that colonists remained discontent with british rule
- George Washington
- 1st President of the United States
- Mercantilism
- countries grow wealthier and maintain their national security by consistently exporting more than they import
- Middle passage
- the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade
- Lord Cornwallis
- Sought to invade NC. following their victory at camden, but were defeated and turned back by patriot victories at kings mountain and cowpens
- Daughters of Liberty
- group urged americans to wear homemade goods
- Benjamin Franklin
- went to paris to try to convience the french to form an open alliance with th u.s.
- Atlantic slave trade
- It involved europeans shipping slaves from africa to the americas
- Treaty of Paris in 1783
- in which Great Britian offically recognized the independence of the united states
- Proclamation of 1763
- law limiting the area of english settlement
- Valley Forge
- were they endured a harsh winter
- French and Indian war
- a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by indian tribes)
- Stamp act
- an act passed by the British parliment in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
- Intolerable acts
- A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British