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100

Extra money placed on items that is paid to the government

Tax

100

The law (line) that the British government placed on the colonies after the French and Indian War to stop colonists from moving west.

Proclamation Line of 1763

100

A general in the French and Indian war, who eventually led the colonial continental army during the Revolutionary War, and then became the first president of the U.S.

George Washington

100

A war between England and its colonies, and France and its Native American allies over land in the Ohio River Valley.

French and Indian War

100

When two or more groups or countries agree to work together in war or trade.

Alliance/Ally

200

A tax placed on tea that also gave one English company control of all tea coming into the colonies.

Tea Act

200

A court case in the colonies that showed that colonists did not have the right to free speech while under the control of England.

Zenger Trial 

200

A colonist who thought the colonies should stay under the control of England and were loyal to England. 

Loyalist

200

A protest against the Tea Act. Colonists dumped over 91,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

Boston Tea Party

200

To be free without being controlled by others.

Independence 

300

British tax on colonial sugar and molasses. Colonists would then smuggle the sugar to avoid paying the tax.

Sugar Act

300

A time where England was not controlling the economy of the colonies. The colonies did well with money as a result of this, and did not want to return to mercantilism.

Salutary Neglect

300

A colonist who thought the colonies should become their own country.

Patriot

300

A conflict between the unarmed Colonists and British Soldiers in Boston. This caused a lot of anger in the colonies over the British Soldiers being there.

Boston Massacre 

300

A colonist who could be armed and ready to fight the British in a minute’s notice.

Minute Men

400

A tax placed on all paper goods coming into the colonies.

Stamp Act

400

A law passed by England that forced Colonists to allow British Soldiers to live in their homes.

Quartering Act

400

A secret society of patriots that organized to oppose British policies.

Sons of Liberty

400

The document was created by the Continental Congress to tell the King of England that the Colonies were officially separating from England.

The Declaration of Independence

400

Refusing to buy goods from a specific company or country as a form of protest.

Boycott

500

Taxes put on the colonies without them agreeing to it.

Townshend Acts

500

Laws designed to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.

Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts

500

A general in the French and Indian war, who eventually led the colonial continental army during the Revolutionary War, and then became the first president of the U.S.

Thomas Jefferson

500

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued that the colonies should be a separate country from England.

Common Sense

500

An army formed from volunteers who are not full time soldiers.

Militia