US History Unit 2 Vocabulary

Was the last of a series of wars fought between the countries and their respective allies between the years of

1754-1763.

• French & Indian War

• Treaty of Paris of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

A violent confrontation between British troops and colonists in 1770 in which the soldiers fired shots that left several colonists dead.

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Procolamation of 1763

An event in which colonists in Massachusetts dressed like Mohawk Indians, raided ships hauling British Tea and threw the crates overboard.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Albany Plan of Union

• French & Indian War

Groups dedicated to efficiently communicate with the other colonies on matters of not having taxiation without representation.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

• Committe of Five

A group of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Committee of Five

• Committees of Correspondence

A tax on nearly all printed material by requiring that it bear a government stamp to show that a tax had been paid.

• Townsend Acts

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

An English American poltical activist, philosopher, poltiical theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States,.

• King George III

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Paine

A document authored predominatly by Thomas Jefferson which explained why the American colonies were separating from Great Britain and proclaimed the United States an independent nation on July 4th, 1776.

• The Treaty of Paris

• Townsend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Declaration of Independence

A group that took it apon themselves to enforce colonial boycotts of British goods and used violence and intimidation to prevent the implementation of British Laws.

• Daugthers of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Committes of Correspondence

• Committe of Five

This law required colonist to house and supply British soldiers stationed in North America.

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts