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Pontiac's War - Pontiac leading the Native Americans against the British since they were taking their
lands at Fort Detroit
Proclamation of 1763 - drew an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalacian's, colonists could not go
past it to settle there, settlers had to pay taxes to enforce this policy
Treaty of Paris - 1763, marked the end of French Power in US
Albany Plan of Union - first try at uniting colonies
French and Indian War - pitted English with the Iroquois against France and Native American tribes
(Algonquin, Huron)
Great Awakening - religious movement in 1730's and 1740's
Great Migration - 1629-1640, many men, women and children came to live in Boston from England
Fundamental Orders - in response to the Puritans, all men who owned property could vote even those
who were not church members, limited the Governor's power
Great Wagon Road - an old Iroquois trail that settlers followed along the eastern slopes of the
Appalachians
Act of Toleration - religious freedom for all christians in 1649 enacted by Lord Baltimore to make sure
Catholics kept their right to worship freely
sugar act - placed a tax on molasses to help pay debts from French and Indian War
, Stamp act - 1765, new duties on legal documents such as wills, diplomas and marriage papers,
newspapers, almanacs, playing cards and dice, repealed in 1766 but Parliament could still raise taxes in
all cases
Townshend Acts - taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint. lead and tea, later repealed to only include a
tax on tea
write of assistance - officers were allowed to inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason, the response
from americans was to not import any goods that were taxed
Sons/Daughters of Liberty - were resistance groups to taxes without representation
Quartering Act - colonists had to provide housing, candles, bedding and beverages to soldiers stationed
in the colonies
Boston Massacre - colonists' crowd were calling british "lobster-backs" and throwing stuff at them, they
panicked and fired their guns killing Crispus Attucks, a son of liberty member`
British East India Companuy - bought tea in southern Asia and sold it to colonists, in financial trouble in
1770's because of tax so Tea Act of 1773 was passed
Tea Act - let the British East India Company bypass the colonists and sell directly to merchants
mercantilism - colonies should support homeland, more goods should be exported than imported`
navigation acts - regulated trade between England and its colonies to make sure only England benefited
from colonial trade
Intolerable acts - passed by England after being angry about the Boston Tea party, port of Boston was
shut down, forbade town meetings more than once a year, major crimes would be tried in Britain,
british commanders could force citizens to house troops in their homes