| A | B |
|---|
| Parliament | The British lawmaking body. |
| tax | money that must be paid to a government |
| imports | goods brought into the country from another country |
| massacre | killing of many people who are not able to defend themselves |
| Committees of Correspondence | groups of colonists who kept in touch with each other by writing letters |
| Crispus Attucks | a runaway slave who was killed at the Boston Massacre |
| monoply | total control of a market |
| Intolerable Acts | acts passed by the british to punish the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party |
| Loyalists | colonists who did not want to go to war with Britain, and remained loyal to the king |
| Patriots | the colonists who wanted to break away from Britain |
| independence | freedom from control by another country |
| revolution | a sudden, complete political change |
| Hessians | German soldiers paid by the British to fight the Americans |
| privateers | small privately owned armed ships given permission to attack enemy ships |
| treaty | a written agreement between two countries |
