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| French and Indian War | War fought between Great Britain and its two enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. |
| Boston Tea Party | The Sons of Liberty revolt against the Tea Act. Sons of Liberty dumped entire load of tea in the harbor. |
| Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty |
| Stamp Act | Tax passed by Great Britain that required colonists to pay a tax on all printed materials |
| Parliment | Legislature, or law making group, in Great Britain |
| American Revolution | The war in which the 13 American colonies won their independence from Great Britain |
| Boston Massacre | 1770 clash between British troops and the townspeople of Boston |
| Townshend Acts | Laws passed by British government on the American colonies that took away freedoms and added new taxes |
| First Continental Congress | Delegates who met in Philadelphia to act in response to the Intolerable Acts |
| Sugar Act | A tax passed by the British to pay for the Seven Years War. |
| Tea Act | Act by Great Britain's Parliament to impose a tax on tea and reduce the surplus. |
| Intolerable Acts | A series of British measures passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | Acts that declared that the American colonies must provide the British soldiers with food and housing |
