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| American Revolution | The war between the 13 Colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 Colonies won their independence and became the United States. |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Costly victory for Britsh troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775. |
| Boston Massacre | Event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them. |
| Boston Tea Party | Protests against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773. |
| boycott | Organized refusal to buy goods. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British |
| Daughters of Liberty | Groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods. |
| First Continental Congress | Meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts. |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by British Parliament to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party |
| Loyalists | Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution. |
| Militias | Volunteer Armies |
| Minutemen | Colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice. |
| Parliament | Britain's law-making assembly. |
| Patriots | American colonists who opposed British rule. |
| Repeal | To cancel. |
| Sons of Liberty | Groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution |
| Stamp Act | Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 Colonies. |
| Tariff | Law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 Colonies. |
| Tea Act | Law passed by Parliament in the early 1770s stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 Colonies. |
| Townshend's Act | Laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 Colonies from Britain. |
