| A | B |
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| Alliance | an agreement by 2 or more nations or parties to act together for a cause |
| Boston Massacre | the clash in 1770 between British troops and a group of Bostonians in which five colonists died. |
| Boston Tea Party | 1773 protest against British trade policies in which patriots came aboard a British ship to empty the tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Boycott | A refusal to buy anything |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 severely restricting the right of American colonists |
| Loyalists | colonists who remained loyal to Britain during Revolutionary War. |
| Militia | Citizens who make up an army |
| Minutemen | Colonial militia who were ready to fight a a minutes notice |
| Patriot | American colonists who supported the Revolutionary War |
| Proclamation of 1763 | A law that did not allow colonists to move west into the Ohio River Valley |
| Sons of Liberty | A secret citizen's group organized in the American Colonies to protest the Stamp Act |
| Stamp Act | a tax on paper |
| Townshend Act | British decree tht puts taxes on important items, such as tea, pape4r and glass |
| propaganda | information designed to influence other people's thinking or behavior |
