| A | B |
|---|
| Petition | Signed document addressed to authorities that requests change. |
| Boycott | Act of refusing to buy certain goods and services. |
| Militia | Army of citizens who fight during emergencies. |
| Repeal | When a government takes away or cancels a law. |
| Writs of Assistance | Document that granted the right to inspect ships' cargoes to British soldiers. |
| Stamp Act | Imposed taxes on documents like wills, marriage papers, newspapers, and dice. |
| Intolerable Acts | Four laws passed by Britain to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party. |
| Townshend Acts | Taxed paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea. |
| Quartering Act | Colonists were forced to house and feed British soldiers. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Forbid settlers to move west in order to protect Native Americans |
| Paul Revere | Famous midnight messenger who spread the news of the British advance. |
| George III | Strict king of Britain who thought the colonies should be taxed. |
| George Washington | Continental Army Comander |
| Effigies | Burned rag figures |
| Crispus Attucks | Black Sailor who was killed in the Boston Massacre. |
| Daniel Boone | Opened the Kentucky Wilderness to settlement. |
| Sugar Act | Taxed molasses |
| Tea Act | Bypassed merchants and sold directly to the American colonists. |
| Daniel Boone | He opened the Kentucky wilderness to settlement. |
| First Continental Congress | Boycott British goods until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. |
| Samuel Adams | Started the Committees of Correspondence |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief who had fought for the French |
| George Grenville | British prime minister |
| Mercy Otis Warren | Wrote plays that made fun of British officials |
| John Adams | Lawyer that defended soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre |
| James Otis | Angrily wrote about the unfairness of writs of assistance. |
| Bunker HIll | Revolutionary War first battle |
| Progaganda | Influencing public opinion |
| Loyalist | Loyal to England |
| Patriot | Wanted to go to war against Britain |
| Preamble | The beginning of the Declaration of Independence |
| Not repealed by the Townshend Acts | Tea Act |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| Samuel Adams | Father of the Revolution |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of Declaration of Independence |
