| A | B |
|---|
| minuteman | volunteer who trained to fight the British in 1775 |
| Tea Act | British law that let the British East India Company sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Intolerable Acts | laws passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in September 1774 |
| militia | army of citizens who served as soldiers during an emergency |
| Boston Tea Party | protest in which Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped British tea into the harbor |
| Paul Revere | messenger who rode around at night yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!" |
