| A | B |
| Sugar Act | set duties and taxes on molassws and sugar |
| Taxation without Representation | Taxing the colonists without their permission or advice |
| Committees of Correspondence | Shared Ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them |
| Stamp Act | Required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items |
| Townshend Acts | placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea |
| Boycott | A popular method of protest where people refused to buy British products |
| Boston Massacre | Killing of British soliders in Boston on a cold March night |
| Tea Act | Allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | Dumping of British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act |
| Intolerable Acts | Placed on the colonists by the British Parliament in protest to the Boston Tea Party |