Law passed by the Parliament that taxed colonists on printed materials.

Groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution

Laws passed by the Parliament that taxed the colonists on imported goods.

Organized refusal to buy goods.

Groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods.

A Boston event 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.

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.

Protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

Laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party.

American colonists who opposed British rule.

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 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts.

Colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice

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test Friday apr 4,2018

Term	Definition
Parliament	Britain’s government
Stamp Act	Law passed by the Parliament that taxed colonists on printed materials.
Repeal	To cancel.
Sons of Liberty	Groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution
Townshend Acts	Laws passed by the Parliament that taxed the colonists on imported goods.
Tariff	A 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	A Boston event 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 Boston Harbor.
Intolerable Acts	Laws passed by the 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 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

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