| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| king GEORGE III | British monarch |
| Quartering Act | a Law passed by parliament in 1765 that required the colonists to house and supply British soldiers |
| revenue | income the government collects to cover expenses |
| sugar act | a Law passed by parliament in 1764 that placed a tax on sugar molasses and other products shipped to the colonies also called for harsh punishment of smugglers |
| Stamp Act | a 1765 law passed by Parliament that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing a tax had been paid |
| Patrick Henry | a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| boycott | a refusal to buy certain goods |
| Sons of Liberty | a group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution |
| Crispus Attucks | sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry killed in the Boston Massacre |
| Townshend Acts | a series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies |
| writs of assistance | a search warrant that allowed British officers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search fro smuggled goods |
| Samuel Adams | leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
| Boston Massacre | a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770 in which five of the colonists, including Crispus Attucks, were killed |
| John Adams | lawyer who defended the redcoats who fired shots in the Boston Massacre |
| committee of correspondence | a group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs |
| Boston Tea Party | the dumping of 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act |
| militia | a force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community during the American Revolution |
| Minuteman | a member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond "at a minute's warning |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| First Continental Congress | a meeting of delegates in 1774 from all the colonies except Georgia to uphold colonial rights |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith who helped spread news of British troop movements |
| Lexington and Concord | sites in Massachusetts of the first battles of the American Revolution |
| Loyalist | an American colonist who supported the British in the American Revolution |
| Patriot | an American colonist who sided with the rebels in the American Revolution |
| Ethan Allen | leader of the band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys |
| artillery | a cannon or large gun |
| Second Continental Congress | a governing body whose delegates agreed in May 1775 to form the Continental Army and to approve the Declaration of Independence |
| Continental Army | a colonial force authorized by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 with George Washington as its commanding general |
| Benedict Arnold | leader of an expedition that attempted to defeat British |
| Declaration of Independence | the document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | Member of a committee chosen to draft a Declaration of Independence |
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