| A | B |
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| boycott | refuse to buy a product, means of protest |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Parliament | Britain's law-making body |
| tax | money people pay to their government |
| duty | tax on imported goods |
| Patriot | colonist opposed to British |
| Loyalist | colonist loyal to British |
| propaganda | information used to support a cause |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | required colonist to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items; legal documents, licenses, newspaper, and playing cards |
| Townshend Acts | these acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea |
| Boston Massacre | an altercation between British troops and a Bostonian mob on King Street |
| Tea Act | act allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | passed as the Coersive Acts, these act were a punishment upon the colonists due to the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Acts | required colonists to house British soldiers |
