1) Indentured Servant: An individual who agreed to work, without wages, for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies. 2) Salutary Neglect: British policy in the early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was growing economically.

3) The 1 st Great Awakening: A religious movement in the English colonies which was heavily inspired by evangelical preachers. This inspired the separation of church and state. 4) Enlightenment: 18 th Century movement during which European philosophers believed that society’s problems could be solved through reason and science.

5) The French and Indian War: A war fought for 7 years in which Great Britain and its colonies defeated France and its Native American allies, thereby gaining control of eastern North America. 6) Parliament: The lawmaking body of Great Britain 7) Treaty of Paris, 1763: The formal end to the French and Indian War that ended French control in North America and gave major land holdings to Great Britain.

8) Proclamation of 1763: A declaration by the British King that ordered all colonial settlements to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered colonists who had fought with the British and wanted to expand westward.

9) Mercantilism: Economic policy under which a nation accumulated wealth by exporting more goods than it imports. 10) Stamp Act: 1765 law passed by Parliament that required colonists to pay a tax on all printed materials. 11) Navigation Acts: British trade laws enacted by Parliaments during the mid-1700s that only allowed the colonists to buy, sell, and trade with Great Britain. 12) Sons of Liberty: Organization of colonists formed in opposition to the Stamp Act and other British laws and taxes.

13) Non-importation: Colonial consumer boycotts of British exports as a response to taxes passed by Parliament. 14) Boston Massacre: An incident in which British soldiers killed 5 colonists in Boston. This changed the nature of protests within the colonies. 15) Boston Tea Party: Protest against British taxes in which Bostonians disguised as Native Americans dumped tea into the harbor. 16) Intolerable Acts: American name for the Coercive Acts, which Parliament passed to control the colonies and to punish Boston for the Tea Party protest.

17) Committees of Correspondence: A network of local groups that informed colonists of British measures and the opposition to them in the years before the Revolutionary War. 18) 1 st Continental Congress: A group of delegates that met together in 1774 and represented all of the American colonies, except Georgia.