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| Boston Tea Party | 1773 act of rebellion against the British tax on imported tea |
| Boston Massacre | 1770 altercation between mob of colonists and British soldiers |
| Declaration of Independence | document that announced the final step in colonial resistance to the British government |
| First Continental Congress | 1774 - the body of delegates representing the colonies |
| Intolerable Acts | response by the British government to the Boston Tea Party |
| Minutemen | civilian armies of American Revolutionaries |
| Quartering Act | 1765 - authorized the British government to requisition certain colonial building for the use of housing British troops |
| Seven Years War | series of wars between France and Great Britain |
| Sons of Liberty | an organization of radicals created in 1765 in American colonies to express colonial oppostion to the Stamp Act |
| sovereignty | ultimate, supreme power in a state |
| Stamp Act Congress | 1765 meeting in New York which was the first example of the united colonial action in the developing struggle against Great Britain |
| Stamp Act | 1765 - passed by Parliament, it required the payment of a tax through the purchase of stamps for all documents |
| Tea Act | 1773 - act of Parliament that gave a monopoly importation to a British company on a specific product |
| writs of assistance | a document giving a government authority the power to search and seize property without restrictions |
