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| French and Indian War | The war which left Britain with heavy debt. |
| The Stamp Act | The unpopular tax law Britain passed in 1765 that required the colonists to buy a stamp whenever they purchased a newspaper, a pamphlet, or signed a legal document. |
| Townshend Act | The unpopular tax law Britain passed in 1767 that required the colonists to pay taxes on tea, paper, glass, lead, and paint that was imported from England. |
| Boycott | To refuse to do business with a person or company OR to refuse to buy a certain good as a form of protest. |
| The Boston Tea Party | The event, meant to be a protest, that took place when a group of colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded a boat in Boston Harbor, and dumped over 300 chests of tea into the harbor |
| The Intolerable Acts | The Acts Parliament used to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party that included closing the port of Boston, outlawing town meetings, and requiring colonists to feed and house British soldiers. |
| Sons of Liberty | Colonists who organized protests against the British government, particularly against the Stamp Act. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Groups of colonists who wrote to each other to inform the colonists about important political events in the colonies. |
| First Continental Congress | A gathering of delegates from every colony except Georgia that met in Philadelphia in 1774 to write a petition (or written request) to King George to try to persuade him to repeal the Intolerable Acts. |
| Minutemen | Soldiers chosen to defend colonial cities as tensions between the colonists and the British increased. |
| King George III | The king of England at the time of the American Revolution. |
| Samuel Adams | A famous member of the Sons of Liberty who wrote news articles for the Boston newspapers attacking the Stamp Act. |
| John Hancock | The Boston patriot who served as president of the Second Continental Congress. |
| Benjamin Franklin | The patriot who was appointed the country’s first Postmaster General. He was also a talented writer, scientist, and diplomat to other countries. |
| John Adams | The influential Boston patriot who was a member of the Continental Congress and a founder of the Committees of Correspondence. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress who was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence. |
| Mary Otis Warren | The woman who was a poet and playwright and encouraged women to boycott goods brought in from England, such a tea. |
| Phillis Wheatley | The slave who wrote poems to encourage fair treatment for all people. She urged the colonists to end slavery. |
