8Th Social Studies Chapter 6

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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