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| Seven Years War | Between the French and British; it created a large debt that the British government expected the colonists to help pay |
| Stamp Act | Imposed a tax for documents; colonists believed Parliament did not have the right to tax them without representation |
| Stamp Act Congress | First gathering of representatives from the colonies; organized to protest the tax on official documents |
| Sons of Liberty | Groups organized to protest the Stamp Act |
| Quartering Act | Law requiring colonists to shelter British soldiers in their homes |
| Writs of Assistance | Documents giving officials the right to search and seize colonial property |
| Boston Massacre | Riot in which several colonists were killed by British soldiers |
| Tea Act | Law placing a tax on tea |
| Boston Tea Party | Colonial rebellion against the tea tax |
| Intolerable Acts | The British government's response to the Boston Tea Party; closed Boston Harbor and limited political rights in Massachusetts |
| Committees of Correspondence | Groups formed to publicize colonial opposition and coordinate resistance throughout the colonies |
| First Continental Congress | Meeting in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts |
| Declaration of Independence | Document explaining to the world why the colonies were renouncing British sovereignty over them |
