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  1. Salutary Neglect
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the British not enforcing policies that led to the colonists believing that they did not have to follow the policies created.

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  1. George I & II
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British Kings who were originally German and therefore had Parliament ruling for them most of the time

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  1. Privy Council
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the first agency of colonial supervision

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4, Colonial Agents

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colonists who met in British Parliament and helped to strengthen the British and colonies ties

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  1. Albany Plan of Union
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Suggested by Benjamin Franklin that the thirteen colonies act as one in their dealings with Britian

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  1. French and Indian War
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the struggle between France and Great Britain to establish the largest landholdings in North America

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  1. French North American Empire
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included Quebec, Canada, and the land of the Louisiana Purchase

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  1. New Orleans
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an important port city that gave the owner of the city the entire Mississippi River

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  1. Iroquois Confederacy
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an Indian group that was largely influential and refused to side with the British and the French during the Seven Years War

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  1. Fort Necessity
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an English fort where the first French defeat of the French and Indian war occured

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  1. George Washington
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a colonist who was a Colonel during the French and Indian war and was born in Virginia

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  1. Edward ‘‘Bulldog” Braddock
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an English commander during the French and Indian War

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  1. Seven Years War
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a conflict between the English and French for land holdings in North America known as the French and Indian War and the real first world War

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  1. William Pitt (The Elder)
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a political leader in Britain during the Seven YEars War and support colonists

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  1. Siege of Quebec
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a turning point in the French and Indian War that was fought on December 31, 1775

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  1. Cajuns
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French residents of Nova Scotia who were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana

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  1. Treaty of Paris (1763)
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gave the British control of Canada, Caribbean Islands, India, and Span gave Florida to Britain and gained Louisiana.

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  1. George III
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the insane king of England who permanently lost the 13 colonies but refused to acknowledge that he had done so

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  1. George Grenville
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Prime minister of Great Britain and Imposed the Stamp Act

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  1. Proclamation of 1763
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put into place by George the III that made it so colonists couldn’t settle pass the Appalachian mountains

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  1. Mutiny Act of 1765
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put into place by the British government that allowed soldiers to be house and fed by any house they chose: military courts could only enforce the laws

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  1. Sugar Act of 1764
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put into place by the Parliament of Great Britain that placed a tax on Sugar

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  1. Currency Act of 1764
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put into place by the Parliament of Great Britain that did not allow the colonists to print paper money

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  1. Stamp Act of 1765
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put into place by the Parliament of Great Britain that forced taxes on colonist stamps and parchments

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  1. Paxton Boys
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Scots-Irish that retaliated against Indians after the French and Indian War

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  1. Regulator Movement
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an uprising in North and South Carolina in which citizens tried to change the government of their colonies

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  1. Patrick Henry
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an american politician who helped stir the idea of independence in Virginia, and said “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”

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  1. Virginia Resolves
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a series of responses to the Stamp act given at the house of Burgess in Virginia

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  1. Stamp Act Congress
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the colonists attempts to have the stamp acts removed from the colonies

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  1. Sons of Liberty
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a colonist group who were fully dedicated to the idea of american independence and would go about any means to achieve it

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  1. Charles Townshend
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the creator of the Townshend act and tried to help the British to get out of their economic struggle

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  1. Townshend Acts
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put into place by Charles Townshend and taxed lead paint, tea, oil, glass

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  1. boycott
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the colonists refusal to buy british goods due to the high taxes on the goods.

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  1. Lord North
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British Prime MInister who put the intolerable acts into place

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  1. Captain Thomas Preston
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The Captain of the British guards during the Boston Massacre

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  1. Crispus Attucks
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the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and a black laborer.

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  1. Boston Massacre
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considered the first major case of casualties during the American Revolutionary war included soldiers accidentally firing their riffles on a crowd of colonists

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  1. Paul Revere
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a son of liberty who is famous for his midnight ride warning towns of the British Soldiers coming

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  1. Samuel Adams
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considered the head of the American Revolution, a son of liberty and cousin to John Adams

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  1. English Constitution
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an unwritten document that helped the British to try and display their rules

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  1. “No taxation without representation”
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the colonists cry that it was unfair for them to be taxed by the English government when they hadn’t elected a member of Parliament

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  1. virtual representation
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the British idea that the colonists could not complain that they weren’t represented in Parliament because every member of Parliament was for every British citizen.

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  1. actual representation
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the idea that every citizen in the British empire should be allowed to elect a member of parliament from their area to represent them

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  1. Tea Act of 1773
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the act that lowered the price of tea for the colonists but only allowed them to buy tea from the East India Compnay

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  1. Daughters of Liberty
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the female counterpart of the Sons of Liberty

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  1. Boston Tea Party
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Colonists dressed up as Indians and dropped tons of British tea into the Boston harbor to protest the Tea act

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  1. Coercive Acts/ Intolerable Acts
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the British response to the Boston Tea Party, which closed off Boston Harbor and did not allow the colonists congresses to meet

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  1. Quebec Act
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gave more rights to the French Canadians such as allowing Catholic Bishops to teach and allow Catholics to run for Public Office

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  1. First Continental Congress
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a committee that met for seven weeks to discuss the American Idea of independence

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  1. Conciliatory Propsitions
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an attempt to reach peace with the colonies prior to the revolutionary war

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  1. Minutemen
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militias of colonies that were seen as a threat to Britain because they were supposed to be ready to fight at a minutes notice

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  1. General Thomas Gage
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Commander in Chief of the British army that was charged to implement the Intolerable acts

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  1. Battle Lexington and Concord
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the places where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired, due to a conflict between the British Soldiers and the minutemen

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