A | B |
Sugar Act | taxes on molasses |
Stamp Act | law that placed new duties on legal documants, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, & dice |
Tea Act | law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists |
Intolerable Acts | series of laws passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
Boycott | to refuse to buy certain goods or services |
Quatering Act | A soldier can stay in your house |
Boston Tea Party | protest agains the tea act |
Patriot | A supporter of Revolution |
Loyalist | Against Revolution |
George Washington | Leader of the Colonial Army |
Sons of Liberty | group that organized boycotts |
John Adams | strong leader of the Patriots |
Red Coat | British Soldier |