| A | B |
| Stamp Act | Act that taxed all paper products |
| Townshend Acts | Act that taxed several items, but the colonists boycotted an the only remaining item taxed was tea |
| Coercive acts | Acts that punished the colonists for the unrest in Boston |
| Intolerable Acts | the name the colonists gave the Coercive Acts |
| Declaratory Act | told the colonists that they could be taxed any time Great Britain felt like it |
| Boston Massacre | Used as propaganda for the Patriot cause |
| Boston Tea Party | Boycott in the Boston Harbor where the colonists destroyed British Tea |
| Sugar Act | Associated with an increase of smuggling |