Parliament
Britain's law-making assembly
Stamp Act
law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 colonies
repeal
to cancel
Sons of Liberty
groups of patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution in particular the stamp act
Townshend Act
laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 colonies from Britian
tariff
tax on imported goods
boycott
organized refusal to buy goods
Daughters of Liberty
Groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods
Boston Massacre
event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them
Committee of Correspondence
groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British
Tea Act
law passed by Parliament in the early 1770s stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 colonies
Boston Tea Party
Protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
Laws passed by British Parliament to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party
Patriots
American colonists who opposed British rule
Loyalists
colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution
First Continental Congress
meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts
militia
volunteer armies
minutemen
colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice
American Revolution
the war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 Colonies won their independence and became the United States
Battle of Bunker Hill
costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775
Took place on breed's hill