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- Stamp Act
- British tax that required Colonist to pay for paper of any kind postage was attached to paper document as proof that the tax was paid
- Betsy Ross
- a philidephia women who is said to have sewn the first American flags in form of the stars and stripes
- Pacahantas
- Native American princess who said to have thrown herself upon Captain John Smith preventing him from being exicuted
- Proclamation of 1763
- British law whih said Colonist would not settle west of American Mountain
- Revoulutionary War
- The war for American Independents from England the conflict began in 1775 and ended in 1781
- French and Indian War
- War which put the French Indian against the british and the colonists. The british gained long East of the Mississippi river as a result
- Shot Heard 'Round World
- A phrase used by the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. To describe the battle of Lexington and Colorado, the first clash of the revolutionary war
- Taxation with Representation
- A slogan of Revolutionary ar and the year before the colonist were hot allowed to vote on British taxes that affected the 13 colonies
- New Amsterdam
- City founded by the 17th century by dutch it is known as new york city
- Battle of York Town
- Last major battle of Revoultionary war. Lord Cornwalls surrender to George Washington and Colonists