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| Royal governer of Massactusetts 1771-1774. Enforced Stamp Act because felt it was his duty. |
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| Commander of British army in U.S. whose regiment attacked the French, starting the 7 Years War. |
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| Led British troops to victory during the 7 Years War |
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| British monarch during the 7 Years War |
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| Chief of Ottawa tribe that rebelled against British in Great Lakes Region after 7 Years War |
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| Twice governer of Virginia. Very prominent advocate for American Revolution. |
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| Politician of Massachusetts that advocated American Revolution and became a founding father of America. |
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| Regime of British troops that were available to respond to war threats very quickly |
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| American Messenger during Revolutionary War who helped organize intelligence and alarm against British Military |
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| Royal governer of New York, then Virginia. Offered freedom to slaves that agreed to fight with British militia against the U.S colonies |
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| British sent by joint stock company to colonize Ohio. Activities of colonists provoked outbreak of French and Indian War |
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| Alliance between Iroquois ndians and British during French and Indian War |
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| Plan for President of colony to be appointed by British monarch, but Grand Council to be chosen by colonian representatives |
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| Treaty that assigned land in the New World to each country and ended 7 Years War |
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| Proclamation after 7 Years War that stabalized Colonist-Indian relations for trade and commerce |
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| Act that placed higher taxes on Sugar to increase British revenue from the colonies |
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| Direct tax to colonists that raised the price of many printed goods. |
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| Colonists believed they could reject British legislation because they had no representation in British parliament. |
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| Virginian response to Stamp Act. Colonists only followed taxation by Virginian parliament which was controlled by Virginia General Assembly. |
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| American male citizens that attacked British tax collectors during the Revolution. |
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| Meeting of colonial representatives to discuss reactions of Stamp Act. |
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| Act stating that British parliament had same authority in colonies as in Britain |
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| Series of acts enforced by Britain on the colonists that raised revenues for Britain and punished colonists for not cooperating with Quartering Act. |
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| Nonconsumption agreements |
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| Colonial protests to Townshend Acts which consisted of boycotts to British goods. |
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| Nonimportation agreements |
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| Colonial protests to Townshend Acts which consisted of port cities refusing trade with Britain. |
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| Colonial women that used womanly skills to boycott British goods after Townshend Acts |
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| Incident between American Colonists and British soldiers that led to 5 colonial civilians being killed. |
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| Committees of correspondence |
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| Political union among colonies that played major role in American Revolution by widely spreading colonial interpretation of British actions |
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| Act passed by British parliament intended to expand British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade. |
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| Also known as Intolerable Acts. series of laws enforced on American colonies by Britain that lead to outbreak of American Revolution. |
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| political protest of Tea Act by colonists in Boston. destroyed/ poured taxed tea into Harbour. |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Meeting between colonial congressmen to discuss possible reactions of Coercive Acts. |
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| System created by First Continental Congress to implement a trade boycott with Great Britain |
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| Committees of public safety |
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| French commitee responsible for thousands of executions via guillotine during French Indian War |
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