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French and Indian War   4th war in series, began in colonies, 7 years' war, over territories  
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George Washington   young col. le small militia, small victory, surrendered July 3, 1754  
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Edward Braddock   1755, VA, defeated, Ft. Duquesne  
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Albany Plan   intercolonial gov't, recruitig troops and collecting taxes  
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Peace of Paris   1763, treaty, British gained French territory  
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salutary neglect   British avoiding enforcing navigation acts  
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George III   tried to solve financial problems, charged colonists  
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Whigs   dominant political party in Parliament  
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Parliament   British legislature  
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Proclamation of 1763   1763, colonists couldnt settle wet of Appalacian Mountains to prevent future hostilities  
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Pontiac's Rebellion   1763, natives attacked frontier, angry about western movement, destroyed settlements  
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Sugar Act   1764, revenue act, enforced nav. acts, duties on sugar and other luxuries  
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Quartering Act   1765, providing food and quarters for British soldiers  
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Stamp Act   1765, revenue stamp required, placed on mail, etc.  
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Patrick Henry   a lawyer, stood up to house of Burgesses, demanded rights from British government  
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Stamp Act Congress   rep's from all colonies met to discuss act, resolved, no taxation without rep.  
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Sons & Daughters of Liberty   secret society for intimidating tax agents, tarred and feathered them  
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Declaratory Act   1766, tated the Parliament had rigth to tax/ make laws for the colonists in any case whatsoever  
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Townshend Acts   1767, duties placed on tea, glass, and paper  
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Writs of Assistance   searching for smuggled goods in private homes, general license to search anywhere  
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John Dickinson   PA, argued against new duties, wrote "Letters..."  
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James Otis & Samuel Adams   wrote Mass. circular letter  
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Circular Letter   1768, urged petitions to get Townshend Acts repealed  
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Letters from a PA Farmer   agued against taxation without representation  
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Lord Frederick North   new Prime minister, urged repeal of Towshend's  
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Boston Massacre   1770, colonists harrassed guards, hot, killed 5 men  
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Crispus Attucks   African American killed in Boston Massacre  
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Committees of Correspondence   initiated by Sam Adams, xchanged letters about threatening British activities, Boston  
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Tea Act   1773, made english tea cheap, insisting on right to collect taxes  
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Boston Tea Party   1773, dumped 342 chests of tea into harbor  
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Gaspee Incidents   colonists diguised as Natives and set fire to the Gaspee ship, had been catching smugglers  
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Intolerable Acts   laws in retalitation for tea party  
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Coercive Acts   1774, punitive acts, consisted of 4 others  
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Port Act   closed Boston Port until tea was paid for  
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Mass. Gov't Act   redced power of Mass. legislature  
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Admin. of Justice Act   royal officials accused could be tried in England  
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Quartering Act expansion   british troops quartered in homes in all colonies  
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Quebec Act   1774, organized Canadian lands  
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Enlightenment   18th century, movement in lit. & philosophy  
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Deism   belief that god established natural laws and diving intervention was minimal in human lives  
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rationalism   human reason will solve problems in life and society  
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John Locke   major influence in American thinking and enlightenment, philosopher and political theorist  
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau   French philosopher, influenced Americans in the 1760's and 70's  
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George Grenville   British Treasury Head  
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Molasses Act   made rum too expensive, repealed, replaced by Sugar Act  
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