| A | B |
|---|
| Townshend Act | laws calling for a tax on imported goods |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| Stamp Act | law that places a tax on printed materials in the colonies |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Patriot | a colonist who opposed British rule |
| Battle of Bunker HIll | important revolutionary battle that took place on Breed's Hill |
| Tea Act | law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists |
| IntolerableActs | new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Sons of Liberty | group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax |
| militia | a volunteer army |
| Parliment | Britain's law making assembly |
| minutemen | militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minute's notice |
| American Revolution | a war Americans fought for independence |
| Boston Tea Party | when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act |
