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30 Cards in this Set
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Civilians serving as soldiers
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Militia
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This plan called for the colonies to unite for the first time under a president general and a grand council, both of which would report to the Crown. Was written by Benjamin Franklin
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Albany Plan of Union
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People who are killed, wounded, captured or missing in a war
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Casualties
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The frontier region between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains
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Backcountry
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People who first settle an area
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Pioneers
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Unsuccessful attack by Ottawa chief Pontiac and his allies against British forts on the frontier in an attempt to drive out European settlers
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods
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writs of assistance
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Stories and images designed to support a particular point of view
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propaganda
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British proclamation banning further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and ordering colonists already living there to move their settlements
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Proclamation of 1763
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Law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies
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Sugar Act
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Law passed by Parliament placing duties on certain items imported by the colonists
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Townshend Acts
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Secret societies formed in the mid 1700's by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors
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Sons of Liberty
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Law passed by the Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bouth paper items such as newspapers, licenses and legal documents
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Stamp Act
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Protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor
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Boston Tea Party
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Incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists gathered in front of Custom House, killing five people
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Boston Massacre
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Committees created by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1760 to help towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British laws
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Committees of Correspondence
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Law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
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Four laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies
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Intolerable Acts
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Women's groups that supported the colonies' resistace to the British by aiding boycotts and other measures
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Daughters of Liberty
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Banned any more settlement west of the Appalacians
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Proclamation of 1763
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The first battle of the French and Indian War was at Fort _________________
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Necessity
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Prime minister who thought the colonists should be taxed for war debts
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Grenville
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Indian leader who was called Princi Phillip by the English settlers
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Metacomet
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British general ambushed at Fort Duquesne
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General Braddick
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British general who led the attack on Quebec
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James Wolfe
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Who was one of the leaders who led the fight against taxation without representation
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Sam Adams
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In the Virginia House of Burgesses ________________ gave a speech opposing the Stamp Act
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Patrick Henry
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After the French and Indian war, the British owned all land east of the ______________
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Mississippi
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Chief ____________________ led attacks on British forts in the 1760s
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Pontiac
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A British sentry arguing with an angry colonist probably led to the ___________________
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French and Indian War
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