| A | B |
| taxation without | representation |
| Loyalists | supported British government |
| quater | pay for their housing |
| Minutemen | militia ready to defend in a minute |
| Crispus Attucks | runaway slave |
| Parliament | made laws for all British people |
| House of Burgesses | first colonial legislature |
| taxes | money paid to a government |
| tariff | tax on goods brought to the colonies |
| self-government | make your own laws |
| legislatures | small,local Parliaments |
| allies | friends in war |
| authority | control |
| treason | working against the government |
| liberty | freedom |
| boycott | refuse to buy |
| Boston Tea Party | protest of the tax on tea |
| Lexington and Concord | fighting places that marked the beginning of the war |
| Committee of Correspondence | kept the colonists informed |