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Chapter 5 SS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fort Necessity | 1754, George Washington, Washington blunders invadertently Tigger a war |
| Monongahela | 1755, General Edward Braddock, Braddock is ambushed near the Forks of the Ohio and iskia |
| Fort Niagara | 1758, General Jeffery Amherst, British prevent troops from moving by water from the west toreinforce eastern cities |
| Quebec | 1759, General James Wolfe, French surrender Quebec, the capital of New France after a battle outside the city |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | France gives up almost all of British gains Canada, all of north America east of the Mississppi plus the Florida panhandle which was taken from Spain. |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief who resisted British settlement wast of the appilations |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | the Indians struck in the spring of 1763 and one by one the frontier forts fell. Within a few weeks, along a thousand-mile frounteir only the forts betroit Niagara and Pit held out |
| Proclamation of 1763 | law that banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains |
| vice admiralty courts | courts that treated suspected smugglers as guilty until proven innocent |
| Sons of liberty | used violence to intimidate tax collector's |
| petition | a written request of government |
| boycott | refusal to buy certain goods or services |
| repel | to end, to do away with |
| writs of assistance | courtoders that allowed officials to make searches without saying what they were searching for |
| Boston Massare | redcoats were in Boston to quell riots in the wake of the Townsend duties and to protect coustermer officials |
| Propaganda | false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause; information used to sway public information |
| Daughters of Liberty | supported the boycott of British goods |
| Boston Tea Party | colonist disguised as Mohawk indians dumped 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor |