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The Road to the Revolutionary War
| Click here first | Answer |
|---|---|
| Loyalists | Americans who stayed loyal to Great Britain |
| Boston Tea Party | Patriots boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped British tea into the water |
| colony | an overseas possession or territory ruled by its mother country |
| Stamp Act | a law that required payment of a tax stamp on paper goods |
| Torries | Members of the Tory Party which believed the king should keep a firm control on the colonies |
| Quartering Act | A law requiring colonial communities to provide food and shelter for British troops |
| Duties | Taxes on imported goods |
| Tariffs | Taxes placed on foreign imports to control trade and protect a nation's business |
| Intolerable Acts | Sought to punish Massachusetts Bay Colony for the destruction caused by the Boston Tea Party |
| Sugar Act | Placed a tarrif on sugar, molasses, wine and coffee brought to the colonies |
| Boycott | A refusal to buy certain goods for political reason |
| Townshend Acts | Laws that placed import duties on tea, glass, lead, paint and paper |
| Declaratory Act | This act made it clear to the colonies that Britain's power over them was not to be questioned |
| Parliament | An assembly of persons weho meet to make new laws and change old ones |