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5th Grade Social Studies

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allies   friends in war  
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boycott   refuse to buy or use something  
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French and Indian War   war between the British and French and their Native American allies  
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Proclamation of 1763   law that colonists could not settle west of the Applachian Mountains  
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Stamp Act   placed taxes on printed materials  
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Townshend Acts   laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods  
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Parliament   Great Britain's law-making body  
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Battle of Bunker Hill   first major battle in the Revolutionary War  
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Boston Massacre   1770-British soldiers killed 5 colonists  
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Boston Tea Party   colonists dumped tea in the Boston Harbor  
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Committee of Correspondence   groups of colonists who spread news  
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First Continental Congress   meeting of representatives from every colony, but Georgia  
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Declaration of Independence   declaring independence from Great Britain  
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Intolerable Acts   laws passed to punish the colonists  
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loyalist   American colonists who are loyal to King George III  
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militia   group of ordinary people who trained for battle  
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minutemen   colonists who would be ready to fight in a minutes notice  
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patriot   colonists who supported independence  
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Paul Revere   rode from Boston to Lexington to warn the patriots  
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repeal   to cancel a law  
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Second Continental Congress   event where the Declaration was written  
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Stamp Act   placed taxes on printed materials  
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Tea Act   the colonists could only buy tea from the East India Company  
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traitor   people who were against their own country  
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Treaty of Paris   ended the American Revolution  
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