| A | B |
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| boycott | to refuse to buy goods or services |
| minuteman | civilian soldiers who boasted that they'd be ready to fight at a minute's notice |
| repeal | to cancel an act or law |
| militia | group of civilians who pledged to defend their communities |
| Boston Massacre | conflict between dockworkers and British soldiers that became a symbol of British tyranny |
| Declaratory Act | gave Parliamen the supreme control to govern the colonies |
| Stamp Act | direct tax that required that a stamp be purchased and placed on documents, almanacs,bills, licences,dice and card |
| Boston Tea Party | protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act |
| patriot | one who resisted the British taxes and sided with the rebels |
| delegate | member of an elected assembly |
| rebel | to oppose those in charge,even to the point of fighting them with weapons, because of different ideas about what is right |
| Sam Adams | led the opposition to the Townshend Acts |
| treason | the betrayal of one's country by giving help to the enemy |
| Quartering Act | required colonist to provide housing British soldiers |
| Sons of Liberty | groups of colonist who organized themselves to protest the Stamp Act and other policies |
| Lexington and Concord | towns where the first shots of the Revolution were fired |
| First Continental Congress | assembly of colonists delegates from every colony except formed in 1774 to oppose the Intolerable Acts |
| Richard Henry Lee | said that all political connection between the colonies and Great Britain was dissolved |
| Intolerable Acts | Coercive Acts passed by Parliament to punish Boston |
| Paul Revere | warned of the approaching British |
