| A | B |
|---|
| French and Indian War | British in HUGE DEBT |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Colonists could not move West; colonists ignored |
| Sugar Act | British tax;British decided to enforce taxes by trying in English courts |
| British East India Company | sold tea in the colonies |
| Stamp Act | creation of Sons of Liberty |
| Stamp Act Congress | meeting of some of colonies to protest Stamp Act |
| Stamp Act Congress and Sons of Liberty | British repealed Stamp Act |
| Declaratory Act | British have the right to tax coloneis and control them |
| Townshend Acts | tax on glass, silk, tea, paint |
| No Taxation Without Representation | Colonists response to Stamp Act and Townshend Acts |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into colonial mob and killed 5 |
| Red Coats | British soldiers |
| Sons of Liberty | organization of colonists who wanted independence; led protests and attacks on British |
| Tea Act | monopoly given to British East India Company |
| George III | king of England at time of Revolutionary War |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | closed Boston Harbor and forced colonists to house Red Coats (British Soldiers) |
| Quartering Act | forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers (red coats) |
| Committees of Correspondence | communication network created by colonists to organize against British |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of all colonies that sent petition to king but also prepared to fight if necessary |
