| A | B |
| Townshend Acts | laws calling for a tax on imported goods |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Tea Act | law that allowed one company to sell tea to colonists |
| militia | a volunteer army |
| Patriot | a colonist who opposed British rule |
| Stamp Act | law that placed tax on printed materials |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| Parliament | Britain's law making assembly |
| American Revolution | war Americans fought for independence |
| Intolerable Acts | new laws dictated to Britain to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party |
| Boston Tea Party | when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest Tea Act |
| minutemen | militia groups who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| Sons of Liberty | group that led protests against new Stamp Act tax |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | important revolutionary battle took place on Breed's Hill |