| A | B |
|---|
| militia | trained to fight the British |
| boycott | refuse to buy something; the Americans boycotted British goods that hurt trade |
| minuteman | soldiers ready to fight on short notice |
| Sons of Liberty | Sam Adams was the leader; organized to protest British policies |
| Daughters of Liberty | brewed liberty tea from raspberry leaves to protest the Tea Act; organized to protest British policies |
| repeal | to do away with |
| Boston Tea Party | a protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act |
| Quartering Act | required colonists to pay for housing British soldiers |
| Intolerable Acts (1774) | 1) limited town meetings to one a year; 2) shut down the port of Boston; 3) established a new Quartering Act; 4) harsh laws by Britain to punish Massachusetts - this angered colonists |
| Stamp Act | 1) taxed legal documents; 2) colonists opposed the Stamp Act by riots; sending petitions to King George III; 4) boycotting British goods |
| First Continental Congress | 1) met to protest the intolerable Acts; 2) resolution to back Massachusetts; 3) agreed to boycott British goods and stop exporting to Britain; 4) each colony should set up militia |
| nonimportation agreements | signed by merchants and planters to protest against the Townshend Acts |
| Indirect taxes | hidden taxes |
| Albany Plan of Union | called for a Grand Council with representatives from each colony |
| Townshend Act | taxed glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea |
| writ of assistance | a document that allowed a customs officer to search a ship's cargo |
| Treaty of Paris | an agreement that gave land east of the Mississippi to Britain |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers killed five colonists; this angered the colonists |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbade colonists to move west of the Appalachians |
| George Grenville | Prime Minister who started the Stamp Act |
| Sugar Act | replaced an earlier tax on molasses |
| Sons of Liberty | patriotic group responsible for the Boston Tea Party of 1773 |
| Committees of Correspondence | they kept each colony informed about events in other colonies |
| Tea Act | 1) prevented colonial merchants from taking part in the tea trade; 2) was supposed to help The British East India Company; 3) was the reason for the Boston Tea Party |
| Boston | the most revolutionary town in colonial America |
| Samuel Adams | started the Committee of Correspondence |
