| A | B |
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| boycott | to refuse to buy goods or services |
| minuteman | civilian soldiers who boasted that they'd be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| repeal | to cancel an act or law |
| militia | group of civilians trained to fight in an emergency |
| Boston Massacre | name given to the time British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were throwing rocks and snowballs at them |
| Sugar Act | increased taxes on items shipped to the colonies like imported sugar,textiles,coffee,wines, and dye |
| Stamp Act | required that a stamp be purchased and placed on documents, almanacs,bills, licences,dice and card |
| Boston Tea Party | protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act |
| assembly | law-making body |
| delegate | member of an elected assembly |
| rebel | to oppose those in charge,even to the point of fighting them with weapons, because of different ideas about what is right |
| town meeting | gathering of town's citizens to discuss and solve problems |
| treason | the betrayal of one's country by giving help to the enemy |
| Quartering Act | required colonist to pay for housing British soldiers |
| Sons of Liberty | groups of colonist who organized themselves to protest against the British government |
| committees of correspondence | groups organized in the 1770's to keep colonist informed of important events |
| First Continental Congress | assembly of colonists delegates from every colony except Georgia who met in 1794 in Philadelphia to oppose the Intolerable Acts |
| loyalist | colonists who supported Great Britain in the American Revolution |
| Intolerable Acts | passed by Parliament to punish Boston |
| Townshend Act | taxed imported goods from England such as paper, lead, glass, paints, and tea |
