Mr. H chapter 6
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- Boston Tea Party
- Colonists dressed up as American Indians and dumped tea into the harbor
- Committees of Correspondence
- Created to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British laws
- Proclamation of 1763
- banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
- Daughters of Liberty
- groups of women who supported the boycotts
- Tea Act
- a law passed by parliament that allowed the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party
- Samuel Adams
- An extremely vocal leader of the colonists who spoke out against taxes and the British.
- King George III
- The King of England during the time period leading up until and including the American Revolution
- Albany Plan of Union
- A plan proposed by Ben Franklin which called for all of the colonies except for Georgia to unite
- Townshend Acts
- placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, & tea
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Wrote plays that were critical of the British
- Sons of Liberty
- Secret Societies that organized protests against the British
- Edward Braddock
- Commander of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War
- Propaganda
- information that is given to others that gives only one side of an argument
- Pontiac's Rebellion
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-A group of Indian tribes led by Chief Pontiac banded together to attack British forts on the frontier
-The rebellion was put down - Treaty of Paris
- In 1763 the British and the French ended their conflict with this treaty
- Boston Massacre
- A group of British Soldiers shot into an angry mob of colonists and killed several of them.
- Pioneers
- The first people to settle a frontier
- James Otis
- A lawyer who was one of the 1st colonists to protest taxation by parliament
- Intolerable Acts
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-closed Boston Harbor
-canceled the Massachusetts charter
- Moved trials to Britain,
- Forced colonists to house troops
-gave canada control of the Ohio Region - Sugar Act
- taxed molasses and sugar imported by colonists
- Writs of Assistance
- allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods
- Militia
- Civilians serving as soldiers
- Practice
- Practice
- Backcountry
- A thinly populated frontier area between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains
- Patrick Henry
- A Virginian who presented a series of resolutions protesting the Stamp Act
- Stamp Act
- A tax that required colonists to pay for an official seal whenever they bought paper items
- Repeal
- to end or revoke
- Casualties
- Killed, injured, or captured soldiers
- George Grenville
- British Prime Minister who asked parliament to tax the colonies
- Metacomet
- -Led the American Indians in "King Philip's war"