2. Minutemen were members of the Massachusetts militia who were always ready to defend the colony.

3. After the French and Indian War, French Canada became a British colony.

4. The Stamp Act was an example of taxation without representation.

5. Many colonists protested the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods.

6. The fighting at Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the Revolutionary war.

7. The Sons of Liberty protested a tax on tea with an action that became known as The Boston Tea Party.

8. Crispus Attucks was a runaway slave who was killed by the British soldiers at the Boston Massacre.

9. Parliament repealed the stamp Act after it heard that the colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress.

10. The House of Burgesses, in the Virginia colony, was the first colonial legislature.

11. The colonists formed the Committees of Correspondence to keep informed about protests against British laws.

12. The Sugar Act angered many colonists because it required them to pay a tariff on goods brought into the colonies.

13. Colonists in Massachusetts felt that quartering, or paying for housing, for British soldiers was intolerable.

14. Loyalists supported the actions of the British government.

15. American colonists had to pay taxes to cover the costs of the French and Indian War.

The Proclamation of 1763

The Proclamation of 1763 was a law stating that colonists could not settle on the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, which were won in the French and Indian war.  The Proclamation of 1763 reserved these lands for Indians so there would be no more wars with them.  The colonists were furious about this proclamation.