| A | B |
|---|
| duties | taxes paid on imports |
| propaganda | stories and images designed to support a particular point of view |
| pioneers | people who first settle an area |
| Sons of Liberty | secret societies set up to fight British taxes and scare tax collectors |
| repeal | to abolish or get rid of |
| writs of assistance | search warrant that allowed tax collectors to enter colonists' homes and search for smuggled goods |
| backcountry | frontier region between the coastal settlements and the Appalachian Mountains |
| casualties | people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing during a war |
| Daughters of Liberty | organization of women who helpted to organize boycotts against the British |
| militia | civilians serving as soldiers |
| King Philip | aka Metacomet |
| Proclamation of 1763 | banned settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Intolerable Acts | aka the Coercive Acts |
| Coercive Acts | closed Boston harbor; Quartering Act; trials move to England; canceled MA charter |
| Declaratory Act | Parliament had the right to tax the Colonies |
| Stamp Act | a tax on all paper items |
| Sugar Act | tax on sugar and molasses |
| Townshend Act | tax on glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper |
| Treaty of Paris | Britain receives Canada, Florida, and all lands east of the Mississippi River |
| Quartering Act | law requiring that colonists feed and house all British soldiers |
| Currency Act | Colonies may no longer print their own money |
