| A | B |
|---|
| debts | unpaid bills |
| intolerable acts | laws passed after the Boston Tea party to punish the colonists |
| protest | expression of objection or disapproval |
| Taxation without representation | What the colonists called the lack of representation in Colonial governemtn |
| French and Indian War | resulted in huge debts for Britan |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Was written to protect American settlers from attacks by Native Americans |
| Quartering Act | forced colonists to provide British soldeirs with food, transportation and housing |
| The colonists reacted to the Stamp Act by | protesting the law in different ways until it was repealed |
| Boston Massacre | has that name because the American colonists from Boston saw the killings as unfair and wrong. |
| Boston Tea Party | protested the British East India Company was the only company that could sell tea to the colonies. This made tea expensive and put farmers in the colonies out of business. |
| acts | laws passed between 1763 and 1774 that affected the American colonies |
| First Continental Congress | A meeting of colony leaders who decided to fight the Intolerable Acts |
