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- debt
- money or goods or services owed by one person to another
- acts
- Laws created or passed by a government
- taxation without representation
- paying taxes without having a say in the laws
- protest
- express complaint through action or words
- French and Indian War
- was fought for the Ohio Valley
- 9 years
- length of the French and Indian War
- Outcome of the French and Indian War
- the French surrendered
- Ohio Valley
- rich soil, animals for fur trade
- Reason for Proclamation of 1763
- Issued by King George III to help relations with North American Indians through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier
- Proclamation of 1763
- law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
- Quartering Act
- Act which required colonies to provide food and lodging for British troops
- Stamp Act
- Tax placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies
- March 5, 1770
- "The Boston Massacre"
- Boston Massacre
- The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans.
- Tea Act
- an act that forced colonists to pay taxes on British tea
- Boston Tea Party
- demonstration by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor.
- Intolerable Act
- a law passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party which closed of Boston Harbor until the lost tea was repaid by the colonists