| A | B |
|---|
| War Debt | money owed due to waging war |
| protest | complaint, objection or display of disapproval |
| boycott | refusal to buy or use an item to support a point of view |
| revenue | income produced |
| taxation | the action of taxing |
| duties | taxes on imports |
| tyrant | a ruler who abuses power in an oppressive manner |
| monarchy | ruled by one person |
| monopoly | exclusive control of something |
| revolution | An overthrowing of a government and replacing it with another government |
| Parliament | British legislature |
| independence | freedom from outside control |
| liberty | a right; condition of being free and independent |
| Stamp Act | taxed all legal documents |
| Townshend Act | taxed paper, glass, silk, lead, and tea |
| Quartering Act | allowed British soldiers to be placed in the homes of the colonists |
| Intolerable Acts | closed the port of Boston, ended town meetings, was the British response to the Boston Tea Party |
| Tea Act | created to help the British East India Company sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Declaration of Independence | 3 Parts include: rights of people, wrongs of the king, declaration of independence (new country) |
| French and Indian War | caused by disputed claims in the Ohio River Valley; costs for this war led to many taxes on the colonists |
| "no taxation without representation" | colonist's argument against taxes; colonists did not have representation in Parliament so they felt that the taxes were unfair |
| propaganda | spreading of an idea used to promote or put down an idea; Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is an example |
| tarring and feathering | used to frighten tax collectors; often accompanied by pouring hot tea down their throats |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act |
| Proclamation of 1763 | forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | put a tax on molasses, sugar products |
| mercantilism | idea that colonies are set up to benefit the mother country |
| Writs of assistance | allowed British soldiers to search ships without warrants |
| Petition | formal request to someone in authority; used by colonists to send to the king |
| Repeal | to cancel or undo |
| Committees of Correspondence | set up to communicate news of mutual interest throughout the colonies |
| Sons of Liberty | groups of patriots working to end unfair British practices |
| Sam Adams | leader of Sons of Liberty |
| John Adams | lawyer who represented the soldiers of the Boston Massacre |
| Mercy Otis Warren | Daughter of Liberty who wrote plays to protest British actions |
| Patrick Henry | patriot:; "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" |
| Boston Massacre | 5 colonists shot; exaggerated to increase anti-British feelings |
| Militia | citizen soldiers; sometimes called minutemen |
| Lexington and Concord | "shot heard round the world"; start of the Revolution |
| Crispus Attucks | 1st African American shot at the Boston Massacre |
| Lexington and Concord | the shot heard 'round the world |
| Loyalists | colonists that sided with the British |
| Olive Branch Petition | document sent to King George III asking him repeal the Intolerable Acts, pledging loyalty |
| Albany Plan of Union | Benjamin Franklin proposed this plan that would unite the colonies |
| Patriots | American colonists who believed that the colonies had the right to govern themselves |
| Ohio River Valley | land the French and the British were fighting for in the French and Indian War |
| smuggling | to import or export without paying lawful custom charges or duties |
| rebellion | an act or show of defiance toward an authority or government |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" |
| traitor | disloyalty to the government |
| "Common Sense" | a paphlet persuading colonists to break with Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | main author of the Declaration of Independence |
| George Grenville | prime minister of England, who promised to reduce the debt by taxing the colonists |
| Lexington | Shot heard around the world was fired here |
| Unalienable Rights | the right to life, liberty and persuit of happiness |
