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| Sugar Act | A trade law enacted by Parliament an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America. |
| Stamp Act | A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America. |
| Samuel Adams | A founder of the Son's of Liberty who called for boycott's against British goods to protest the unfair taxation. |
| Boston Massacre | A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed. |
| Boston Tea Party | The dumping of 15,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act. |
| King George III | A British monarch infuriated by the Boston Tea party who pressed Parliament into passing the Intolerable Acts. |
| John Locke | An Enlightenment thinker who believed people had the rights to life, liberty, and property. He also believed people had the right to resist and overthrow a government which infringed upon their rights. |
| Common Sense | A pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Declaration of Independence | The document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britain. |
