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The American Revolution

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salutary neglect   Hands off policy of running British colonies in America.  
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French & Indian War   War that gave the British control of North America.  
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Treaty of Paris 1763   France lost Canada and all lands east of the Mississippi, England gained all French land and exclusive rights to the Caribbean slave trade.  
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parliamentary sovereignty   English officials assumed that Parliament must have the ultimate authority over all laws and taxes in the colonies.  
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Proclamation of 1763   Colonist could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains.  
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Stamp Act   Law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills & newspapers.  
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Townshend Act   Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that set taxes on imports to the colonies.  
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Intolerable Acts   A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British.  
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Quartering Act   Force colonist to house British soldiers.  
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Tea Act   Gave East India Company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea.  
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Boston Massacre   Conflict between colonists & British soldiers in which four colonists were killed.  
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Boston Tea Party   Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.  
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Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty   Formed to protest British restrictions & became leaders  
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Committees of Correspondence   A network of communication set up in Massachusetts & Virginia to inform other colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights.  
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John Lock   Philosopher who wrote about government.  
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Montesquieu   French writer concerned with government & political liberty.  
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Common Sense   Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked the monarchy.  
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"No taxation without representation"   Colonial slogan.  
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Second Continental Congress   The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence.  
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Declaration of Independence   Document that said the United States was an independent nation.  
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George Washington   Led Virginia troops in first battle of the French & Indian War.  
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Marquis de Lafayette   French noble who helped the Americans.  
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Lexington & Concord   General Gage orders troops to march an seize colonial weapons, Minutemen intercept the British and engage in battle.  
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Valley Forge   Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778.  
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Saratoga   Battle won by the Americans in 1777.  
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Yorktown   Battle that gave Americans victory in the war.  
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Treaty of Paris 1783   Treaty that officially ended the war.  
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