| A | B |
|---|
| King George III | the British monarch who wanted to enforce the proclamation and also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies |
| revenue | income |
| Sugar Act | law that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies |
| Stamp Act | law that required all legal and commercial documents to carry and official stamp showing that a tax had been paid |
| Patrick Henry | member of Virginia's House of Burgesses called for resistance to the tax |
| boycott | a refusal to buy |
| Sons of Liberty | a secret societiy to oppose British policies made up of lawyers, merchants, and craftspeople |
| Crispus Attucks | a sailor of African American and Native American ancestry, and was and early hero of America's struggle for freedom |
| Townshend Acts | Charles Townshend's plan to raise revenue in the colonies |
| writs of assistance | search warrants |
| Samuel Adams | a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and boston colonists in 1770 in which five of the colonists were killed |
| John Adams | a lawyer and cousin of Samuel Adams |
| committees of correspondence | groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| militia | a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their conmmunity |
| Minutemen | one-third of the Lexington militia who were trained to be "ready to act at a minute's warning |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laxs to punish the Massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies |
| First Continental Congress | a meeting in which delegates voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed |
| Paul Revere | a Boston silversmith and a second messenger |
| Lexington and Concord | the first battles of the Revolutionary War |
| Loyalists | those who supported the British |
| Patriots | those who sided with the rebels |
| Ethan Allen | the leader of the band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys |
| artillery | a cannon or large gun |
| Second Continental Congress | a governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence |
| Continental Army | a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress with George Washington as its commanding general |
| Benedict Arnold | an officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga |
| Declaration of Independence | the document in which the colonied declared independence from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | the composer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Quartering Act | a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiersand provide them with supplies |
