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| Committtees of Correspondence | The name for the colonists who wrote letters to each other in order to organize protests and resistance against the British |
| Townshend Acts | In order to replace taxes lost by the repeal of the Stamp Act, Parliament created this, which was a tax on lead, glass, paper and tea |
| Writs of Assistance | This was used by British officers to enter colonists homes in order to seize goods or search the home |
| Boston Tea Party | In response to the Tea Act, a group of colonists joined together and threw 342 crates of British goods overboard in this event |
| Sons of Liberty | This group of individuals would drag tax collectors from their homes and tar and feather them as a method of protest against British taxes |
| Declaratory Act | After the repeal of the Stamp Act, Parliament passed this, which stated that Parliament was the absolute ruler of the colonies |
| Crispus Attucks | The only African American and one of the five people killed during the Boston Massacre |
| Stamp Act | Was a tax on legal documents, newspapers, wills and business receipts |
| Sugar Act | Was a tax on molasses arriving in the colonies and an attempts by the British to stop smuggling in the colonies |
| Loyalist's | A person that was on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War |
| Patriot's | A person that was on the side of the colonists druing the Revolutionary War |
| Intolerable Acts | Stated that Boston's port was to be closed, British Officers were to be tried of crimes in British courts, and the British troops would be housed wherever they desired |
| Militia | Colonists that joined together to fight the British |
| Boycott | The refusal to buy certain goods as a form of protest |
