| A | B |
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| King George III | person who wanted to keep peace with the Native Americans and to abide by the Proclamation of 1763 |
| Quartering Act | cost saving measure passed by Parliament that made colonists house and provide supplies to British troops |
| revenue | income |
| Sugar Act | tax on molasses, sugar, and other products that were being sold to the colonists |
| Stamp Act | law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid |
| boycott | refusing to buy as a form of protest |
| Sons of Liberty | secret society that opposed British policies; Paul Revere, Samuel Adams |
| Townshend Acts | named after the king's finance minister; was made in response to New York citizens refusing to quarter troops without pay;suspended New York's assembly and added duties on various goods brought into the colonies |
| writs of assistance | search warrant |
| Boston Massacre | incident used as a propaganda tool against the British |
| John Adams | lawyer who defended the British soldiers who were a trial for the shooting at the Boston Massacre |
| committees of correspondence | groups that exchanged letters among one another |
| Boston Tea Party | disguised as Native Americans Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest British taxation |
| militia | group of armed civilians |
| Minutemen | member of colonial militia who was trained to respond 'at a minute's warning' |
| Intolerable Acts | Coercive Acts; series of laws to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights; John Adams named it 'a nursery of American statesmen' |
| Paul Revere | member of the Sons of Liberty; Bostonian silversmith; took part in the "Midnight Ride" |
| Lexington and Concord | first battles of the Revolutionary War |
| "the shot that was heard around the world" | reference to the Revolutionary War |
| Loyalist | supported the British |
| Patriot | supported the Colonists |
| Proclamation of 1763 | said that colonists would not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Daughters of Liberty | secret society of women against British policies |
| Lobsterback | derogatory name for British troops; Redcoats |
| Yankee | derogatory name for colonists |
