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| 452001790 | Huguenots | groups of French Protestant | 1 | |
| 452001791 | French and Indian War | French and English on American soil over control of the Ohio River Valley-- English defeated French in1763. Established England as number one world power. | 2 | |
| 452001792 | Albany Congress | conference from June 19 through July 11, 1754 in New York; it advocated a union of the British colonies for defense against French to help cement the loyalty of the Iroquois League. 150 representatives of tribes withdrew without committing themselves to the British cause. | 3 | |
| 452001793 | Proclamation of 1763 | forbade the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains; caused first major revolt | 4 | |
| 452001794 | William Pitt | leader in the London government, "Organizer of Victory"; he led and won a war against Quebec. | 5 | |
| 452001796 | James Wolfe | British general whose success in the Battle of Quebec won Canada. | 6 | |
| 452001797 | Edward Braddock | British commander during the French and Indian War who attempted to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755. | 7 | |
| 452001798 | Pontiac | Indian Chief; led post war flare-up in the Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes Region in 1763; his actions led to the Proclamation of 1763. | 8 | |
| 452001799 | Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who sailed to the West Indies, Mexico, and Panama. He wrote many books telling of his trips to Mexico City and Niagara Falls. His greatest accomplishment was his exploration of the St. Lawrence River and his latter settlement of Quebec. | 9 | |
| 452001800 | Stamp Act Congress | 27 delegates from nine colonies met in New York City as a response to the act that taxed printed materials. | 10 | |
| 452001801 | Intolerable Acts | Acts passed in 1774, following the Boston Tea Party, that were designed to chastise Boston in particular, yet effected all the colonies. | 11 | |
| 452001803 | Quartering Act | Act that forced colonists to pay taxes to house and feed British soldiers | 12 | |
| 452001804 | The Association | A document produced by the Continental Congress in 1775 that called for a complete boycott of British goods. | 13 | |
| 452001805 | Stamp Act | Required the colonists to pay for a stamp to go on many of the documents essential to their lives. | 14 | |
| 452001807 | Hessians | German soldiers hired by George III to smash Colonial rebellion. | 15 | |
| 452001808 | Loyalists; Tories | Colonials loyal to the king during the American Revolution; two names for them. | 16 | |
| 452001810 | Declaratory Act | Signed at the same time as the Stamp Act was repealed. Parliament had the right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." | 17 | |
| 452001811 | First Continental Congress | Met in Philadelphia; American's response to the Intolerable Acts; all colonies except Georgia sent men; John Adams persuaded revolution; wrote a Declaration of Rights and appeals to British American colonies, the king, and British people; created the Association which called for a complete boycott of English goods; the Association was the closet thing to a written constitution. | 18 | |
| 452001812 | Sugar Act | first law ever passed by Parliament; raised revenue in the colonies for the crown by increasing the duties on foreign sugar. | 19 | |
| 452001813 | Townshend Acts | "Champagne Charley" persuaded Parliament to pass these acts, which put a light import duty on such things as glass, lead, paper, and tea. | 20 | |
| 452001817 | Sons of Liberty | organization established in 1765, these members (middle or upper class) resisted the Stamp Act of 765. They combined with the Daughters of Liberty and remained active in resistance movements. | 21 | |
| 452001818 | Quebec Act | Allowed the French Colonist to go back freely to their own customs, and extended the region into the Ohio River Valley. | 22 | |
| 452001820 | King George III | King of England in the Revolutionary War. | 23 | |
| 452001821 | Baron Von Steuben | Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. | 24 | |
| 452001822 | Mercantilism | colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country. | 25 | |
| 452001825 | Lord North | prime minister in the 1770's; his rule fell, which therefore ended the rule of George III for a short while. | 26 | |
| 452001826 | George Grenville | British Prime Minister from 1763-1765. To obtain funds for Britain after the costly 7-Years War, in he ordered the Navy to enforce the Navigation Laws, and Parliament to pass the Sugar Act. He brought about the Quartering Act. | 27 | |
| 452001827 | Samuel Adams | "Penman of the Revolution;" organized the local committees of correspondence in Massachusetts, starting with Boston in 1772. | 28 | |
| 452001828 | Charles Townshend | Control of the British ministry and was nicknamed "Champagne Charley" for his brilliant speeches in Parliament while drunk. He persuaded Parliament in 1767 to pass the Townshend Acts. | 29 | |
| 452001829 | John Adams | Second president of the US; attended the Continental Congress in 1774 as a delegate from Georgia. | 30 | |
| 452001830 | John Hancock | "King of the Smugglers" ; He was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant who persuaded the American colonies to declare their independence. He was the ring leader in the plot to store gunpowder which resulted in the battles in Lexington and Concord. | 31 | |
| 452001831 | Declaration of Independence | Approved by the Congress on July 4, 1776; sharply separated Loyalists from Patriots and helped to start the American Revolution by allowing England to hear of the colonists disagreements with British authority. | 32 | |
| 452001832 | radical Whigs | party of patriots of the new land resisting England prior to the Declaration of Independence | 33 | |
| 452001833 | Treaty of Paris of 1783 | British recognized the independence of the United States. | 34 | |
| 452001835 | Common Sense | written in 1776 by Thomas Paine. It called for the colonists to realize their mistreatment and push for independence from England. | 35 | |
| 452001839 | Privateering | Privately owned armed ships specifically authorized by congress to prey on enemy shipping. | 36 | |
| 452001840 | Thomas Jefferson | member of the House of Burgesses, wrote the Declaration of Independence, was ambassador to France, and was the President of the United States of America; bought Louisiana. | 37 | |
| 452001841 | Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman, nicknamed "French Gamecock", made major general of colonial army. | 38 | |
| 452001842 | Admiral de Grasse | Operated a powerful French fleet in the West Indies, joined Americans in an assault on Cornwallis at Yorktown. | 39 | |
| 452001843 | Patrick Henry | Supporting a break from Great Britain, he is famous for the words, "give me liberty, or give me death!" | 40 | |
| 452001844 | Comte de Rochambeau | Commanded a powerful French army of six thousand troops. | 41 | |
| 452001846 | George Rogers Clark | Frontiersman; gave the region north of the Ohio River to the United States. | 42 | |
| 452001847 | Richard Henry Lee | Member of the Philadelphia Congress. On June 7, 1776 he declared, "These United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." | 43 | |
| 452001850 | Charles Cornwallis | British general who fought in the Seven Years War, was elected to the House of Commons in 1760, and lost battles to George Washington on December 26, 1776 and on January 3, 1777. | 44 | |
| 452001851 | Thomas Paine | Published Common Sense; had the idea that the colonies should set up America as an independent, democratic, republic away from England. | 45 | |
| 452001852 | Nathanael Greene | Cleared Georgia and South Carolina of British troops. | 46 | |
| 452001853 | Benedict Arnold | American General during the Revolutionary War; he prevented the British from reaching Ticonderoga; he tried to help the British take West Point and the Hudson River. | 47 | |
| 452001854 | John Burgoyne | British general given charge of the army, and he surrendered at Saratoga. | 48 | |
| 452001855 | George Washington | Commander in Chief of Continental Army; first US president | 49 | |
| 452001856 | William Howe | English General who commanded the English forces at Bunker Hill. | 50 | |
| 454267460 | Edict of Nantes | granted tolerance to Huguenots | 51 | |
| 454267461 | coureurs de bois | "runners of the woods;" fur-trappers | 52 | |
| 454267462 | voyageurs | fur-trappers | 53 | |
| 454267463 | King William's War | war between French trappers, British, and Indian allies; colonial war of War of the League of Augsburg in Europe | 54 | |
| 454267464 | Queen Anne's War | 2nd war between English and French in North, English and Spanish in Florida | 55 | |
| 454267465 | War of Jenkin's Ear | clash between Britain and Spain in Georgia and Caribbean | 56 | |
| 454267466 | King George's War | North American War of Austrian Succession; British against French in North | 57 | |
| 454267467 | Acadians | French in Nova Scotia forced to Louisiana; Cajuns | 58 | |
| 454267468 | regulars | trained soldiers | 59 | |
| 454267469 | Battle of Quebec | British victory over French; end of French rule in North America | 60 | |
| 454267470 | Pontiac's Uprising | uprising led by Ottawa chief to drive British out of Ohio Country; British won by giving Indians blankets with smallpox | 61 | |
| 454267471 | republicanism | political theory based on representative government based on popular sovereignty with emphasis on liberty | 62 | |
| 454267472 | admiralty courts | tried offenders for violating Navigation Acts; lacked juries | 63 | |
| 454267473 | nonimportation agreements | boycotts against British goods adopted in response to Stamp Act, and late, the Townshend and Intolerable Acts | 64 | |
| 454267474 | Daughters of Liberty | patriots played central role in rebelling against Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements | 65 | |
| 454267475 | Boston Massacre | clash between Bostonians and redcoats | 66 | |
| 454267476 | Boston Tea Party | protested tax on tea; colonists dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor | 67 | |
| 454267477 | Battles of Lexington and Concord | first battles of Revolution; forced British back to Boston | 68 | |
| 454267478 | Valley Forge | encampment where Washington's army spent a harsh winter | 69 | |
| 454267479 | Crispus Attucks | One of the first to die in Boston Massacre; mulatto and leader of the mob | 70 | |
| 454267480 | Thomas Hutchinson | Massachusetts governor whose home was destroyed; agreed tax on tea was unjust; ordered tea ships not to leave harbor until cargo was unloaded | 71 | |
| 454267481 | Lord Dunmore | governor of Virginia; promised freedom to blacks that joined British army | 72 | |
| 454267482 | Second Continental Congress | Representative body of delegates from all thirteen colonies; drafted Declaration of Independence | 73 | |
| 454267483 | Battle of Bunker Hill | fought in outskirts of Boston on Breed's Hill; militia retreated but much of the British army was lost | 74 | |
| 454267484 | Olive Branch Petition | conciliatory measure adopted by Continental Congress, professing American loyalty and seeking end to hostilities | 75 | |
| 454267485 | Declaration of the Rights of Man | declaration of rights adopted during French Revolution; modeled after Declaration of Independence | 76 | |
| 454267486 | Patriots | colonists who supported American Revolution | 77 | |
| 454267487 | Battle of Long Island | battle for control of NY; Britain retained control of city for most of the war | 78 | |
| 454267488 | Battle of Trenton | Washington surprised and captured garrison of sleeping Hessians; helped victory at Princeton | 79 | |
| 454267489 | Battle of Saratoga | turning point of war; upstate NY; secured French support | 80 | |
| 454267490 | Model Treaty | sample treaty drafted by Continental Congress as a guide for American diplomats; foster commercial partnerships rather than political or military entanglements | 81 | |
| 454267491 | Armed Neutrality | loose alliance of nonbelligerent naval powers, organized by Russia's Catherine the Great, to protect neutral trading rights during American War for Independence | 82 | |
| 454267492 | Treaty of Fort Stanwix | treaty signed by US and pro-British Iroquois granting Ohio country to Indians | 83 | |
| 454267493 | Battle of Yorktown | Washington and French besieged Cornwallis; surrender | 84 | |
| 454267494 | Ethan Allen | captured Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point | 85 | |
| 454267495 | Richard Montgomery | formerly in British army; captured Montreal | 86 | |
| 454267496 | Benjamin Franklin | adored French diplomat | 87 | |
| 454267497 | Joseph Brant | Mohawk chief; British ally | 88 |
