| A | B |
|---|
| Parliament | British law-making assembly |
| Stamp Act | placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies |
| repeal | cancel |
| Sons of Liberty | led protests against Stamp Act |
| Townshend Acts | laws calling for tax on imported goods |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| boycott | organized refusal to buy goods |
| Daughters of Liberty | Patriot women who made cloth, tea |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into colonists, killing 5 |
| Committee of Correspondence | spread news quickly through colonies |
| Tea Act | law allowing one company to sell tea to colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | British punishment for Boston Tea Party |
| Patriot | colonist who opposed British rule |
| Loyalist | colonist loyal to King George |
| First Continental Congress | Met to discuss colonial response to Intolerable Acts |
| militia | volunteer army |
| minutemen | militia ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| American Revolution | war Americans fought for independence |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | battle that took place on Breed's Hill |
