| A | B |
|---|
| militia | small army of citizens trained for an emergency |
| patriots | Americans who believed colonies had the right to govern themselves |
| loyalists | colonists who had a deep loyalty to Britain |
| neutralists | colonists who took neither the patriots or loyalists side |
| Whigs | another name for patriots |
| Tories | another name for loyalists |
| tyranny | unjust/unfair use of government power |
| repeal | to take back or cancel a law |
| boycott | refuse to buy goods from a certain source as a form of protest |
| French and Indian War | War between Britain and France that gave Britain territory to the Mississippi River |
| intolerable | unbearable or unendurable |
| ceded | to grant, transfer or give, example- to give land |
| Sons of Liberty | patriot group that attacked British tax collectors and dumped tea in protest |
| George Washington | British Army soldier during the French and Inidan War |
| General Braddock | Bristish leader during the French and Indian War who led troops in the Ohio River Valley |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forced English settlers to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Stamp Act | collected a tax on every piece of paper |
| Quartering Act | forced colonists to provide British soldiers with housing and food |
| Townshend Acts | collected a tax on glass, paint, paper and tea |
| The Boston Massacre | British soldiers killed five colonists at a protest |
| Tea Act | collected a tax on tea to help the British East India Company |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act |
| Intolerable Acts | laws punishing Boston for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | colonial delegates who met to ask King George to repeal the Intolerable Acts |
| Lexington and Concord | the first battles of the American Revolution |
