1. Ch. 7 Vocabulary

2. war between France and Britain over control of land in the Ohio River Valley

3. French and Indian War

4. Colonial governor of Virginia. He sent George Washington to warn the French to leave the Ohio River Valley

5. Robert Dinwiddie

6. A city or town where the government of a state or nation meets

7. capital

8. First college in Virginia. Founded in 1693 and named after King William and Queen Mary of England

9. College of William and Mary

10. Independent city between the James and York Rivers. It was the capital of the Virginia colony from 1699 to 1780.

11. Williamsburg

12. Fee citizens pay to support the cost of government

13. tax

14. A protest in which people refuse to buy, use or trade certain goods and services

15. boycott

16. Political leader who favored American independence by saying, “ Give me liberty or give me death.”

17. Patrick Henry

18. an army of citizens called into services during emergencies

19. militia

20. Colonial groups organized in the 1770s to share news and opposition to English taxes and rules

21. Committee of Correspondence

22. A fort south of Fort Duquesne. It was built in 1754 by George Washington. The capture of this fort was the start of the French and Indian War.

23. Fort Necessity

24. Military leader who commanded British troops in the French and Indian War and, later, American forces in the Revolution. He later became the first President of the United States.

25. George Washington

26. a tax that the British parliament placed on newspaper and other official documents sold in the American colonies

27. Stamp Act

28. French fort at the Forks of the Ohio River, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River Valley.

29. Fort Duquesne