| A | B |
|---|
| Loyalists | Tories; People loyal to the King |
| George III | King of England |
| Tea Act | Law giving British East India Company a monopoly on tea |
| John Dickenson | Wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania |
| John Adams | Future president; Defended Boston Massacre soldiers |
| Samuel Adams | Led the Sons of Liberty |
| Committees of Correspondence | How colonies communicated and coordinated protest plans |
| Crispus Attucks | First person killed at Boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | Said "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| Minutemen | Militia unit that could be ready at a moments notice |
| Paul Revere | Engraved Boston Massacre and made the "Midnight Ride" |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Line forbidding colonial settlement westward |
| Sons and daughters of liberty | Extremist group formed to protect the rights of colonists |
| Abigail Adams | Member of the Daughters of Liberty |
| First Continental Congress | Delegates who met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia |
| Stamp Act | Tax on printed material such as newspapers and pamphlets |
| Writ of assistance | This allowed customs agents to search for smuggling |
| Benjamin Franklin | Join or Die creator; represented the colonies in Britain |
| Declaratory Act | Act announcing that England controlled the colonies |
| Boston Massacre | Incident in which British Army soldiers killed five civilians |
| Townshend acts | Tax on paper, tea, glass, lead, and paints |
| Patriots | Group of people loyal to the colonial cause |
| John Hancock | His ship, The Liberty, was searched for smuggled goods |
| Intolerable Acts | Another name for the Coercive Acts |
| Boston Tea Party | 342 containers of tea were thrown into Boston Harbor |
| James Otis | Lawyer who said taxation without representation is tyranny |
