| A | B |
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| assemblies | Groups of colonists who would get together to make laws |
| town meetings | Groups of colonists that would get together to discuss local problems |
| delegate | A person who was a representative in the House of Burgesses |
| John Peter Zenger | A newspaper printer who criticized New York's royal governor |
| rebel | to refuse to obey the people in authority |
| Stamp Act | the law that required the colonists to pay a tax on every newspaper they bought |
| Patrick Henry | the man who spoke out against the Stamp Act |
| Sons of Liberty | Groups of colonists who organized protests against the British government |
| Samuel Adams | the man who wrote articles for the Boston newspapers attacking the Stamp Act |
| repeal | to cancel |
| Townshend Acts | the law that said the colonists had to pay tax on all tea, paper, glass, lead and paint that they imported from Britain |
| boycott | to refuse to do business with a person or a group |
| Mercy Otis Warren | the person who encouraged colonial women to give up tea and other goods from Britain |
| Crispus Attucks | the man who started the Boston massacre |
| Committees of Correspondence | goups of people who wrote to each other to inform colonists about what was going on with Britain |
| Boston Tea Party | the event where 342 chests of tea were dumped into the Boston harbor |
| Intolerable Acts | the colonists' name for the laws which closed the port of Boston, banned town meetings, and ordered colonists to feed the British soldiers |
