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| revenue | incoming money from taxes or other sources |
| writ of assistance | court document allowing customs officers to enter and search any location for smuggled goods |
| resolution | an official expression of a group's opinion |
| effigy | mocking figure representing an unpopular official |
| boycott | refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval |
| repeal | to cancel and act or law |
| rebellion | open defiance of authority |
| propaganda | ideas or information intentionall spread to help or harm a cause |
| committee of correspondence | an organization that spread political ideas and information through the colonies |
| minuteman | during Revolutionary era, civiliian sworn to be ready to fight with only a minute's notice |
| Loyalist | American colonist who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence |
| Patriot | American colonist who favored American independence |
| petition | a formal request |
| Stamp Act | an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents |
| Sugar Act | a revenue raising act, passed by Great Britain to tax sugar and other goods to pay for the Seven Years War |
| Quebec Act | awarded all the territory and fur trade between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in North America to the province of Quebec in what is now Canada |
| Coercive Acts | a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party |
| intolerable | so bad or extreme that no one can bear it or tolerate it |
| Proclamation of 1763 | set territorial limits on where European colonists could settle in America |
| parliament | the original legislative assembly of England, Scotland, or Ireland and successively of Great Britain and the United Kingdom |
| violate | break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement) |
| resolution | an official decision that is made after a group or organization has voted |
| commodity | a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee |
| Townshend Acts | a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America |
| occupy | to take or hold possession |
| Boston Tea Party | a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts |
