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| writs of assistance | legal documents that let British officials searched for smuggled goods (133) |
| revenue | incoming money to a government; Britain planned to raise it with new taxes (133) |
| Parliament | the law-making body of Britain's government (133-135) |
| Stamp Act | 1765 law placed a tax on printed material (134) |
| repeal | To cancel - like the Stamp Act in March 1766. (134) |
| Daughters of Liberty | Women groups organized to support the boycott of goods from Britain. (135) |
| Sugar Act | 1764 law taxed molasses entering the colonies & cracked down on smuggling (133) |
| Stamp Act Congress | delegates from nine colonies met to petition King & Parliament about unfair taxes (134) |
| boycott | refuse to buy, or use, as a means of protest (134) |
| Declaratory Act | 1766 law to remind colonists that Parliament could tax & make decisions "in all cases". (134) |
| Townshend Acts | 1767 laws that taxed basic items from Britain, such as glass, tea & paper. (135) |
| Sons of Liberty | Boston group started by Sam Adams to protest the Stamp Act (134) |
| nonimportation agreements | thousands of merchants signed these agreements to not buy or use goods from Britain (134) |
| Proclamation of 1763 | 1763 law that did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains (133-134) |
| committee of correspondence | organization started by Sam Adams to circulate writings about colonists' grievences with Britain (137) |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who created the most famous image of the Boston Massacre (137) |
| propaganda | information designed to influenece opinion against the British (137) |
| Sons of Liberty | Boston group that performed the Boston Tea Party (139) |
| Boston Tea Party | dramatic Boston protest of the Tea Act in 1773 (138-139) |
| Liberty | John Hancock's ship that was seized by the British government in 1768 for smuggling. (136) |
| Coercive Acts | Britain's name for the harsh laws to punish Bostonians for their resistance (139) |
| Intolerable Acts | Colonist's name for the harsh laws to punish Bostonians for their resistance (139) |
| Tea Act | law that gave unfair advantages to the British East India Tea Company (138) |
| Boston Massacre | angry mob of Bostonians vs. British soldiers on March 5, 1770 (137) |
| King George III | British ruler that vowed to punish Boston in 1774 (139) |
| Loyalists | People in America who remained on the side of Britain. (145) |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | Battle to control strategic high ground of Boston in June 1775. (145) |
| Shot Heard 'Round the World | Name given to gunshots that started the Revolutionary War in Lexington, Massachusetts. (144) |
| Continental Congress | Leaders from the colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 to act together against the British government. (141-142) |
| Paul Revere | Sons of Liberty member who warned Massachusetts citizens that British soldiers were coming. (143) |
| Minutemen | Massachusetts militia men who were ready to fight the British. (142) |
| militias | Volunteer citizen soldiers of the colonies. (142) |
| Lexington & Concord | Two Massachusetts towns where the Revolutionary War began on April 18, 1775. (143-144) |
| Fort Ticonderoga | The British military base captured by colonial militia on May 10, 1775. (144) |
| Patriots | People who wanted to fight for American independence from Britain. (145) |
| Continental Army | America's army created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775. (148) |
| George Washington | The man chosen to be the commander of America's Continental Army. (148) |
| Olive Branch Petition | The final formal request for peace and protection of rights made to King and Parliament by the Second Continental Congress. (148-149) |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet that called for complete indepenence from Britain. (149-150) |
| Second Continental Congress | Group of colonial leaders that began to govern the colonies and discuss independence in 1775. (147-148, 150) |
| Declaration of Independence | The historic document that boldly announces America's independence from Britain. (150-151, 154-156) |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence. (150) |
| John Hancock | This leader of the Continental Congress boldly signed the Declaration of Independence first and large enough that "King George could read it without his glasses". (150) |
| grievances | The longest part of the Declaration of Independence explains the colonists' ___________, or complaints, against the British government. (151, 154-156) |
| July 4, 1776 | America's birthdate. The date the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress. (150) |
| Boston | On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army regained control of the city of ______ without a fight. (149) |
