Turmoil over taxatio Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Quartering Act | law which stated colonists had to provide housing, bedding and beverages to soldiers stationed in the colonies |
| Griffin’s Wharf | Place where colonists protested by destroying cargo |
| British East India Company | a business deep in financial debt after colonists began boycotting tea |
| Tea Act | law removing colonial merchants from particular British goods |
| Boston Tea Party | a protest of British policy by colonists who destroyed a ship’s cargo |
| Intolerable Acts | passed by Parliament as punishment for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | Meeting in Philadelphia by delegates to discuss events in Boston and decided to boycott British goods |
| Militia | Army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| Lexington & Concord | First battles of the American Revolution |
| Minutemen | militia volunteers who were to be ready to fight if called upon |
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