| A | B |
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| traitor | a person who works against his or her country |
| tariff | a tax |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Patriots | colonists who opposed British rule |
| Parliament | Britain's law making assembly |
| minutemen | men who could be ready at a minute's notice to fight for their country |
| militias | volunteer armies |
| massacre | a killing of many people who cannot defend themselves |
| Loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to the British government and King George III |
| boycott | to refuse to buy or use goods or services |
| John Hancock | the first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Paul Revere | member of the Sons of Liberty and rode his horse to Lexington warning, "The British are coming!" |
| King George III | the king of Britain who taxed the colonists |
| Samuel Adams | organized the Sons of Liberty and formed the Committee of Correspondence |
| Crispus Attucks | former slave who was killed during the Boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | spoke out against the British, saying, "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| George Washington | appointed the general of the Continental Army |
| Thomas Jefferson | main writer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | wrote a short book called "Common Sense" |
| Thomas Gage | general of the British Army |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | gave colonists confidence in their ability to fight a war |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers were taunted by colonists, who were mad because they were occupying Boston. The soldiers fired into the crowd, killing 5. |
| The Stamp Act | Placed a tax on all printed materials sold in the colonies; each item had to have a special stamp on it. |
| The Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dumped tea from British ships into the Boston Harbor because colonists were angry about the tea tax. |
| The Intolerable Acts | said colonists had to feed and house the British soldiers; closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for; punishment for the Boston Tea Party |
| The Tea Act | Only the East India Company could sell tea to the colonies |
