| A | B |
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| writs of assistance | Document that allowed a customs officer to search a ship's cargo |
| repeal | To cancel a law |
| boycott | To refuse to buy certain goods |
| nonimportation agreements | A document signed by merchants and planters in protest against the Townshend Acts |
| militia | An army |
| minutemen | The name for the militia in Massachusetts |
| committees of correspondence | A group of people organized by Sam Adams to keep colonists informed of what the British were doing in Massachusetts |
| Stamp Act | Taxed legal documents |
| Quartering Act | Required colonists to pay for housing British soldiers |
| Sugar Act | Taxed one of the main products in the triangular trade |
| Intolerable Acts | Laws passed by Britain to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| Townshend Acts | Taxed glass, paper, silk, lead and tea |
| Tea Act | Allowed the British East India company to sell tea directly to colonists |
| Boston Tea Party | A protest by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Made it illegal for colonists to move west of the Appalachians |
| Sons and Daughters of Liberty | Groups organized to protest the British taxes and other policies |
| Jeffrey Amherst | He was sent to the frontier to try and keep peace between the Native Americans and the settlers |
| Boston Massacre | Shooting of five Boston citizens by British soldiers |
| General Thomas Gage | He led British troops to Lexington and Concord to look for and seize militia guns and ammunition |
| Captain James Parker | He was the leader of the minutemen who attacked the British at Lexington |
| John Adams | He was a lawyer and a member of the Sons of Liberty |
| Mercy Otis Warren | She wrote plays poking fun at British officials |
| Chief Pontiac | He was an Ottawa chief who led attacks against the British |
| Crispus Attucks | He was a freed black man who was a member of the Sons of Liberty and was killed in the Boston Massacre |
| Paul Revere | He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and rode through the night to warn colonists of the British march to Lexington and Concord |
| Sam Adams | He organized the committees of correspondence to keep colonists informed of what teh British were doing |
| Pontiac's War | A war between Native Americans and British settlers on the frontier |
| Stamp Act Congress | A meeting attended by delegates from 9 of the British colonies to protest the Stamp Act |
| First Continental Congress | A meeting attended by delegates from 12 of the British colonies after Britain began punishing Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party |
| April 19, 1775 | The date of the "shot heard 'round the world"-the fighting at Lexington between the British and the Massachusetts minutemen |
