| A | B |
| Stamp act of 1765 | Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when they bought paper items |
| Great Awakening | A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730-1740 |
| Enlightenment | A movement in Europe during the 1700s which spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society |
| English Bill of Rights | A bill passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch |
| Triangular Trade | Trade among three places: the Americas, Britain, and Africa |
| Boston Tea Party | Incident in which the colonists, dressed as Indians, dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Act | Laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | Law requiring colonists to house British soldiers |
| Tea Act | Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Boston Massacre | Incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five |