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British minister that is responisble for the passing of the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765
A tax where colonist had to buy stamps and put them on official documents and some commerce goods such as playing cards. Eventually repealed due to colonial resistence.
Male and female groups that enforced nonimportation agreements and attacked stamp agents by tarring and feathering them.
British Minister who cleverly attempted to impose import taxes that ended up being unsuccesful
A zealous and courages defender of the comon peoples rights and oragnzied resistent groups called the commitess of correspondence
An event were colonist disguised themselves as Indians and dumped 342 chests of British tea in the Boston harbor to protest the tea tax
Laws/acts passed in 1774 such as the Boston Port Act, which closed the Boston harbor untill the damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid.
British govenor who believed that the Tea Tax was wrong but also believed that the colonist shouldn't be able to infirnge the law and ordered the British tea ships to not leave Boston until the tea was unshipped
A meeting of the colonies (except Georgia) led by John Adams that organized the Association, which called for complete boycott of British goods.
A nineteen-year old general in the Revolutionary Army
The organizational genius of the Revloutuinary Army who traied raw colonial recruits and made them into tough professional soldiers
A legislation that required colonist to feed and shelter British troops; colonist in New York and other colonies disobeyed this law
A interprid soldier "The Father of New France" who aquired the Huron Indians as Allies for France
The first European to float down the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Named Louisiana
French outpost in Ohio Valley where the French defeated the British and took Fort Necessity
Virginian who was Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later becomes the first president of the United States
Nagotiated French support for the colonist, signed the Treaty of Paris, helped write the Constitution, and invented the bifocal spectles, lightining rod and stove
A British general in the French and Indian War who set out with two thousand men in 1775 to capture for Dusquene and was killed in the battle
A influential leader in the London governemnt that strategically planned out attacks against thr French. Was responsible for the Bristish over taking fort Louisberg
Agreement between British and Indians that there would be no colonization passed the Mississippi river; colonist igngored this policy.
Founded in 1718 as a fortified post in Lousiana and Mississippi
French residents of Nova Scotia, many of whom were uprooted by the British in 1755 and scattered as far south as Louisiana, where their descendants became known as "Cajuns"
A battle where colonial soldiers put up a tremenedous fight as British Soldiers continued to attack, until their ammo ran out and they were forced to retreat
A general who started out fighting as a Revolutionary General then became a British General; considered the biggest trader in American history
Author who wrote "Common Sense" which described of significant ideas of the patriot cause
Author who wrote "Common Sense"

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