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 * **Proclamation of 1763** || It was when British announced what lands they won during the French and Indian War and the land for the Native Americans. || ** 5 ** || The colonists weren’t able to move to where they were promised that they could move (west) because it was made illegal for them to move west. British still made colonists pay taxes for the expenses wasted in the war. ||
 * **The Quartering Act** || It was the act that the Colonists had to give shelter, money, transportation, and food to the troops (during this time the colonists were really mad) || ** 7 ** || The colonists were getting suspicious of the troops because they thought that the troops were there to try and control them. ||
 * **The Stamp Act** || It started in 1765 after the war the government had to pay a lot of money because of the war so they made the colonist pay taxes and they had to get a stamp to prove that they already had paid the taxes. || ** 8 ** || The colonists were starting to act up and to listen to the government by not paying taxes and not buying products from the British but from other government and or countries. ||
 * **Townshend Acts** || It was when the act British Imposed more taxes || ** 4 ** || It was a bad thing to do but it was sort of calm because even thought the colonists knew all they did was sit down and be mad. ||
 * **Boston Massacre** || It happened on march 5, 1770 mob of colonists started to harass British troops. They were throwing snowballs and not respecting them. Then the British troops shot them and killed 5 colonists. || ** 8 ** || It got to the point were 5 colonists were murdered. ||
 * **Boston Tea Party** || In 1773 parliament passed the tea act, it was the idea that the colonists could only buy tea from the British. The Boston Tea Party was the time when they dressed as Indians and smashed open 340 chests of tea and dumped them in the harbor, while people watched in approval || ** 10 ** || I rated this 10 because even thought there wasn’t any killing or any guns involved it will later cause big problems and the British would want to pay back it could even cause a war. ||
 * **The Intolerable Acts** || It was when the British raced the taxes so the colonists would pay for the tea that was lost in the Boston Tea party. It was named the intolerable acts because it was something that the colonists didn’t tolerate because they were forced to do it. || ** 4 ** || It caused a lot of problems and people were getting really frustrated and mad at the idea of paying more taxes. ||
 * **First Continental Congress** || Colonists started to work together to protect their collective rights. || ** 3 ** || Colonists decided to work together and put aside their differences. ||
 * **Lexington and Concord** || April, 1775 British troops left Boston and march to Lexington and concord. They attacked and killed few but as the troops left Lexington and concord attacked them and many were killed the troops made a plan and **The Revolutionary War Began.** || ** 10 ** || I rate this 10 because it was a really big event and it caused the revolutionary war to begin. ||
 * DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:**
 * Battles of the Revolutionary War:**
 * __ First Continental Congress __**** - ** a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
 * __ Minutemen __** - Members of teams of select men from the American colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War.
 * __ Redcoats __** - British soldier; so-called because of his red coat.
 * __ Second Continental Congress __** - convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
 * __ Continental Army __** - American army during the American Revolution.
 * __ George Washington __** - 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799).
 * __ Battle of Bunker Hill __** - the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces.

Section 2
 * __ Common Sense __** - Subtitled "A new constitution for Britain" is a book written by the English socialist politician Tony Benn and the journalist Andrew Hood.
 * __ Thomas Paine __** - was a colonial American privateer who, during the late 17th century, raided several Spanish settlements, including his raid with Jan Willems who together looted Rio de la Hacha in 1680 as well as driving the French out of Block Island.
 * __ Thomas Jefferson __** - 3rd President, the Author of the Declaration of Independence.
 * __ Declaration of Independence __** - The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain.
 * __ Patriots __** - One who loves and defends his or her country.
 * __ Loyalists __** - Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during and after the American Revolutionary War.

Section 3
 * __ Mercenaries __** - A mercenary is a professional soldier hired by a foreign army, as opposed to a soldier enlisted in the armed forces of the sovereign state of which he is a citizen.
 * __ Battle of Trenton __** - Important Priority victory.
 * __ Battle of Saratoga __** - New York was the greatest victory yet for the American forces.
 * __ Marquis de Lafayette __** - French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
 * __ Bernardo de Gálvez __** - Governor of Spanish Louisiana became the key ally to the patriots.
 * __ John Paul Jones __** - Quickly gained famed as a brave and clever sailor.
 * __ George Rogers Clark __** - Was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War.

Section 4
 * __ Francis Marion __** - Military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
 * __ Comte de Rochambeau __** - French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
 * __ Battle of Yorktown __** - Fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
 * __ Treaty of Paris of 1783 __** - signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 (the ratification documents were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784), formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America.

**7__.__ ****__What does "no taxation without representation" mean? __**  “No taxation without representation” means that during that time the British were taxing the colonists without the colonists having a voice on it and without the colonists voting on whether or not they would want to pay or at least the amount of money they could pay.   **__Why did the colonies/colonists break away from Britain? __** The colonies/colonists broke away from the British because the British did not treat them good, they were paying to many taxes; the British were also making the colonists give shelter, food, and most of their money and stuff to the soldiers that were fighting in the war during the French and Indian War. The colonists also wanted to break away from Britain because they were breaking them from their freedom and they promised them many things that were always breaking broken while the Britain were enjoining their money and the taxes the colonists were working themselves up just for the rich people to be getting more and more money without even working for it.