| A | B |
|---|
| militia | army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| minutemen | volunteers who are prepared to fight at a minutes notice |
| Tea Act | let B.E.I.C. bypass merchants and sell to colonists-protested b/c they wanted NO tax on tea |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | shut down Boston port, forbade town meetings, tried in British courts, colonists must house soldiers |
| First Continental Congress | in Philadelphia-every state except GA sent a rep. |
| British East India Company | company in southern Asia who made tea |
| Paul Revere | rode around and told the colonists that the British were coming |
