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| Stamp Act | Tax on legal document,newspapers, and dice |
| Writs of Assistance | seacrch warrent that let custom officers inspect cargo without permission |
| Sugar Act | tax on molasses |
| Sons of Liberty | group of colonial men who joined together to protest the Stamp Act |
| Proclamation Act | British law that forbid colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Boston Massacre | Shooting of five Bostonians by British soldiers on March 5, 1770 |
| French and Indian War | Conflict fought between the French and British in N. A. from 1754 to 1763 |
| Townshend Act | A tax on glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea |
| Boston Tea Party | Protest by a group of Bostonians who dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Quartering Act | A law that required colonist to pay for the housing of British Soliders |
| Committees of Correspondence | Group of colonist who wrote letters and pamphlets protesting the British |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by Parliment in 1774 to punish the colonist of Mass. for the Boston Tea Party |
| boycott | refuse to buy certain goods |
| Propaganda | stories and images designed to support a particular pt of view |
| Militia | An army made up of Civilians serving as temporarily as soldiers |
| minutemen | milita members who were ready to fight in a minutes notice |
| casualties | people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war |
| redcoats | British soldiers who fought against the colonist in the American Revolution |
| Loyalists | Colonist who sided with Britain in the American Revolution |
| Patriots | American colonists who fought for indepedence from Britain during the Revolutionary War |
| Continental Army | Army organized and funded by the 2nd Continental Congress |
| Declaration of Indepedence | document created by the 2nd Continential Congress that declared the colonies free of Britain |
| Daughters of Liberty | Women's groups thatt supported the colonies reseistance to the British by boycotts and other things |
| Congress | a group of elected officals |
