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| 11310743078 | Ohio River Valley | Fertile and strategic point of interest, became the center of many conflicts between the French and the British; significant for fur trade and transportation | 0 | |
| 11310743079 | Albany Congress | (1754) Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French. First attempt to unite the colonies; failed due to colonies not wanting to give up their tax powers | 1 | |
| 11310743080 | George Washington | ordered by British to move into Ohio River Valley to force the French to leave | 2 | |
| 11310743081 | William Pitt | The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies | 3 | |
| 11310743082 | Treaty of Paris of 1763 | end of the French and Indian war; Britain won all of North America except for New Orleans. | 4 | |
| 11310743083 | Acadians | 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". | 5 | |
| 11310743084 | Seven Years' War | Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. | 6 | |
| 11310743085 | Pontiac's War | A 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area | 7 | |
| 11310743086 | Proclamation of 1763 | A proclamation from the British government which forbade American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east. | 8 | |
| 11310743087 | Writs of Assistance | It was part of the Townshend Acts. It said that the customs officers could inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason. Colonists protested that the Writs violated their rights as British citizens. | 9 | |
| 11310743088 | Sugar Act | British deeply in debt due to French & Indian War. Designed to raise revenue; Parliament placed a modest tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors. | 10 | |
| 11310743089 | Navigation Acts | A series of British regulations which taxed goods imported by the colonies from places other than Britain, or otherwise sought to control and regulate colonial trade. Increased British-colonial trade and tax revenues. The Navigation Acts were reinstated after the French and Indian War because Britain needed to pay off debts incurred during the war, and to pay the costs of maintaining a standing army in the colonies. | 11 | |
| 11310743090 | Vice-Admiralty Courts | military tribunals composed only of a judge, not local common-law jury; Sugar Act required that offenders be tried in these courts rather than local courts, provoking opposition from smugglers accustomed to acquittal before sympathetic local juries | 12 | |
| 11310743091 | Stamp Act | 1765, A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies; an internal tax | 13 | |
| 11310743092 | virtual representation | The British argument that the American colonies were represented in Parliament, since the members of Parliament represented all Englishmen in the empire. | 14 | |
| 11310743093 | Sons of Liberty | A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. | 15 | |
| 11310743094 | Stamp Act Congress | A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament, and it showed signs of colonial unity and organized resistance. | 16 | |
| 11310743095 | John Dickinson | Drafted a declaration of colonial rights and grievances, and also wrote the series of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts. | 17 | |
| 11310743096 | Declaratory Act | Act passed in 1766 just after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Stated that Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases. | 18 | |
| 11310743097 | Quartering Act | 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. | 19 | |
| 11310743098 | Non-importation Agreement | an agreement that pledged not to import or use goods imported from England | 20 | |
| 11310743099 | Daughters of Liberty | supported the boycott of British goods. They urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other goods that were previously available only from Britain. | 21 | |
| 11310743100 | Mercy Otis Warren | American writer and playwright and was known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution". | 22 | |
| 11310743101 | Boston Massacre | 1770, Dockworkers threw rocks and snowballs at customs sentries; British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed | 23 | |
| 11310743102 | Committees of Correspondence | Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies | 24 | |
| 11310743103 | Paxton Boys | a group of Scots-Irish men living in the Appalachian hills that wanted protection from Indian attacks; protested the lenient way that the Quakers treated the Indians; slaughtered a group of peaceful Conestoga Indians in Lancaster County | 25 | |
| 11310743104 | Regulators of North Carolina | Groups from the Carolinas who wanted to restore law and order after governmental changes in the 1760s | 26 | |
| 11310743105 | Tea Act | 1773 act which eliminated import tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to consumers rather than through merchants. Led to the Boston Tea Party. | 27 | |
| 11310743106 | Boston Tea Party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor | 28 | |
| 11310743107 | Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | An offer by the British governor and military commander in Virginia for freedom to any slave who escaped to his lines and fought for the British. | 29 | |
| 11310743108 | Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British; also known as the Coercive Acts | 30 | |
| 11310743109 | Quebec Act | Extended boundaries of Quebec and granted equal rights to Catholics and recognized legality Catholic Church in the territory | 31 | |
| 11310743110 | Continental Congress | A body of representatives from the British North American colonies who met to respond to England's Intolerable Acts. They declared independence in July 1776 and later drafted the Articles of Confederation. | 32 | |
| 11310743111 | Suffolk Resolves | Agreed to by delegates from Suffolk county, Massachusetts, and approved by the First Continental Congress on October 8, 1774. Nullified the Coercive Acts, closed royal courts, ordered taxes to be paid to colonial governments instead of the royal government, and prepared local militias. | 33 | |
| 11310743112 | Olive Branch Petition | A document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain | 34 | |
| 11310743113 | Bunker Hill | (June 17, 1775) Site of a battle early in the Revolutionary War. This battle contested control of two hills (Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill) overlooking Boston Harbor. The British captured the hills after the Americans ran-out of ammunition. Battle implied that Americans could fight the British if they had sufficient supplies. | 35 | |
| 11310743114 | Thomas Paine | Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. | 36 | |
| 11310743115 | Fort Ticonderoga | American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775; moved the cannon from the fort to Boston to force the British to evacuate the city | 37 | |
| 11310743116 | Declaration of Independence | 1776 document written by Thomas Jefferson outlining reasons for the colonies to break the ties with England; declared the colonists' grievances against the King | 38 |
