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| Parliament | the british law making body or group was called this |
| Sons of Liberty | group lead by Samuel Adams, organized the British Tea Party |
| Stamp Act | Act passed to place taxes on legal documents |
| Patriots | those who wish to break away and seek independence from England |
| Repeal | to remove or to take away |
| Tea Act | tax that would help the british East India Company stay out of debt |
| Boston Massacre | event in which five colonists were killed |
| Townshend Act | this act placed taxes on lead and paint |
| Quartering Act | this act allowed british soldiers to be housed in colonial homes |
| Intolerable Acts | these acts were passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| 1st Continental Congress | this meeting set up an embargo on British goods and colonial militias |
| Boycott | a refusal to buy certain goods is called this |
| Proclamation of 1763 | this disallowed colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Propaganda | a method to get people to think or act in a certain way is called this |
| Loyalist | one who wants to remain controlled by the Brithish Crown |
| Boston Tea Party | event where colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest British rules |
| "No Taxation without Representation | this quote showed how the colonists were upset over taxes |
| Lexington and Concord | the first two battles of the Revoluntionary War |
| Pontiac's Uprising | showed that the lands west of the Appalachians would be hard to control |
| William Pitt | British Prime Minister who spent large amounts of money to win the French and Indian War, putting England into huge debt |
| Neutralist | Someone who cannot decide between becoming a patriot or a loyalist |
| Mercantilism | The economic principle that colonies exist solely for the benefit of the mother country |
| Paul Revere | Leading patriot who rode his horse through the countryside of Boston warning colonists of the approaching British troops |
| John Adams | Boston lawyer who defended the British troops tried for murder at the Boston Massacre |
| King George III | England's King during the time of the Revolution |
| Tyranny | Government ruled without the consent of the governed |
| Patrick Henry | Made a famous speech ending in "Give me Liberty, or give me death!" |
| Militia | A group of armed soldiers |
