| A | B |
| repeal | protest against the Tea Act |
| duties | to refuse to buy certain goods |
| Stamp Act | fronteir region in Virginia and the Carolina's |
| Tea Act | to abolish or get rid of |
| Townshend Acts | law that raised tax money by charging the colonists a tax on newspapers, licenses, and legal documents |
| Boston Massacre | incident in which Bristish soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists gathered in front of the Custom House, killing five people |
| Boycott | secret society formed by colonists to protest new taxes and frighten tax collectors |
| Boston Tea Party | British ban on colonists living west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| casualties | four laws passed to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party and to tighten givernment control |
| Proclamation of 1763 | people killed, wounded, or captured, or missing in a war |
| Son's of Liberty | law allowing Bristish East India Company to sell its low cost tea directly to the colonies - this led to Boston Tea Party |
| Intolerable Acts | law placing duties on certain items imported by colonists |
| backcountry | taxes on imported goods |
| Sugar Act | law passed setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies |