| A | B |
|---|
| Sugar Act | law placing a tax on sugar and other goods imported into the Thirteen Colonies |
| smuggling | to import goods illegally |
| Stamp Act | law placing a tax on anything printed on paper, such as newspapers, playing cards, and calendars |
| Patrick Henry | a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses who made an angry speech against the Stamp Act and said that the British government was using its power unfairly |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of men troughout the Thirteen Colonies who organized protests against taxes |
| protest | an event at which people complain about an issue |
| boycott | a form of protest in which a group of people refuse to buy, sell, or use certain goods |
| repeal | an action that cancels a law so it is no longer in effect |
| Townshend Acts | after the repeal of the Stamp Act, new taxes the British Parliament placed on tea, glass, cloth, lead, paints, and paper that the colonists imported |
| Daughters of Liberty | organizations of women who wove their own cloth and used it to make their own clothes in order to boycott British cloth |
| Samuel Adams | an important leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston who organized protests against British taxes |
| Treaty of Paris of 1763 | treaty that ended the French and Indian War; gave Brtain control of Canada and most of the land east of the Mississippi River |
