| A | B |
| Quartering Act | House British soldiers |
| Sugar Act | Used to help stop smuggling |
| Patriots | Fight against the British |
| Militia | Citizen soldiers |
| Boycott | Refuse to buy |
| "The shot heard 'round the world" | Lexington and Concord |
| Propaganda | Info. to influence public opinion |
| Committee of Correspondence | Letters written to inform colonists of British wrongdoings |
| Rag figures | Effigies |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Stamp Act | Tax on printed materials |
| Sam Adams | Led the "Sons of Liberty" |
| George III | Monarch during the American Revolution |
| Writs of assistance | Legal document permitting searches |
| Intolerable Acts | Closed Boston Harbor, prohibited town meetings, quartered soldiers |
| Crispus Attucks | Victim of the Boston Massacre |
| First battle of the Revolutionary War | Bunker Hill |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| Minutemen | Would fight at a moments notice |
| Colonial opposition to the war | Boston Massacre, formed militias, and Boston Tea Party |