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| blockade | using warships to prevent other ships from entering or leaving a harbor |
| Boston Tea Party | the Sons of Liberty protested the tax on tea with this action |
| boycott | to stop buying or using a product as a protest |
| British Parliament | law-making body that passed laws fo the British people and for people living in the British colonies in North American |
| Committees of Correspondence | groups of colonist who wrote letters to one another to keep colonists informed about protests against British law |
| Continental Congress | called by the Committees of Correspondence in 1774 to decide what to do about British actions after the Boston Tea Party; they agreed to stop all trade with Britain; they would no longer obey British Laws when the laws took away their liberty; there were 2 Continental Congresses |
| democracy | a government in which the people take part; the U. S. is a democracy because we elect our leaders |
| legislature | a group of people formed to make laws; the lawmaking branch of a colony, state government, or national government |
| public opinion | what the people of the community think |
| Crispus Attucks | a runaway slave who was killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre; he led the charge against the soldiers and was the first person to be killed for American independence |
| liberty | freedom; to most colonists, liberty meant the freedom to make their own laws |
| Concord | the location of the battle that marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War; the Revolutionary War began with fighting between the colonists and the British army in the towns of Lexington and Concord |
| French Canada | became a British colony after the French and Indian war |
| House of Burgesses | the first colonial legislature; started in the Virginia colony |
| loyalists | colonists who supported the actions of British government; also known as Tories |
| patriots | colonists who were against the British |
| Minutemen | Massachusetts fighters who could be ready in a minute to defend the colony |
| petition | a request for action signed by many people; many colonists signed a petition asking King George III to change the Stamp Act, but he refused |
| quarter | to provide or pay for housing; the British government ordered the colonists to provide housing for the British soldiers |
| repealed | to make something be a law no longer; the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act when it heard that nine of the colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress |
| representation | to have a vote or say in how you are governed; in the case of the Stamp Act, as with the other tariffs, the money was not the issue that the colonists minded the most; what really bothered them was that they had not agreed to the taxes; they had no vote in parliament; no one represented them; many colonists were against the Stamp Act because it was an example of taxation without representation |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of colonists who protested the tax on teas with an action that later became know as the Boston Tea Party; they disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded ships, broke into all the chests of teas, and dumped teas in the harbor |
| tariff | an extra amount of money paid for goods brought into the country; the Sugar Act is an example of a tariff; it angered many colonists because it made them pay an extra amount of money for goods brought into the colonies |
| How were taxes a cause of the Revolutionary Waready paying heavy taxes and refused to pay taxes for what they saw as a colonial problr taxes and refused to pay taxes for what they saw as a colonial pro? | The British asked American colonists to pay taxes to cover the cost of the French and Indian War. Colonists' perspective: the colonists considered the taxes unjust because they were not represented when the decision was made. British perspective: The British were already paying heavy taxes and refused to pay taxes for what they saw as a colonial problem. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | a British order to the colonists to stop settling the western lands won in the French and Indian War; Britain wanted to save the western lands for the Native Americans for their "hunting grounds"; the king hoped this order would prevent more wars between the colonists and the Native Americans; the colonists were angered by the proclamation because they wanted to settle these lands; the colonists did not want to obey the laws made in London |
| Action: Britain wins the French and Indian War | Reaction: The British Parliament decided that the colonists must pay for the cost of the French and Indian War through taxes and tariffs. |
| Action: Britain wins the French and Indian War | Reaction: The British government would not let the colonists settle in western lands. |
| Action: The British government passes the tax on tea brought into the colonies. | Reaction: The colonists decide not to buy (boycott) British tea. |
| Action: The British government passes the tax on tea brought into the colonies. | Reaction: The colonists dump the British tea into the Boston Harbor. |
| Action: The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dump British tea into the Boston Harbor. | The British government closes the port of Boston until the tea is paid for. |
| Action: The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dump British tea into the Boston Harbor. | The Royal Navy (the British Navy) blockades Boston Harbor. |
| Action: The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dump British tea into the Boston Harbor. | Colonists are ordered to pay the costs of housing British soldiers. |
| Action: The British general hears that Patriot leaders and weapons are being hidden at Lexington and Concord | Reaction: The Revolutionary War begins as fighting begins between the British and the colonies at Lexington and Concord. |
