Acts of Parliament
The Declaratory Act of 1766 repealed this much-hated law/tax passed the previous year, yet reserved the right for Parliament to tax the colonies in the future.
He defended the British soldiers at their trial for their role in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
This word described the social relationships of the late medieval/early modern world, based on the idea that some were meant to rule while others were meant to be ruled.
Deference
A famous night of protest in Boston in 1773 was not called this until fifty years later.
Boston Tea Party
This decree forbade future white settlement of Native land west of the Appalachian Mountains following the Seven Years' War.
Proclamation of 1763
Lobbyist for the colonies who presented the American perspective on the Stamp Act crisis to Parliament in 1766.
Benjamin Franklin
Name given to collective taxes passed by Parliament in 1767 on glass, lead, paper, paint, etc., that led to colonial resistance in the form of the non-importation movement.
Townshend Duties
The first battle(s) of the American Revolution took place in these two towns.
Lexington and Concord
Passed in 1773, the Tea Act gave this British corporation a monopoly on tea sold in North America.
East India Company
King of Britain during the American Revolution.
George III
Name given to Americans who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
Loyalists
All the colonies sent delegates to take part in the First Continental Congress in 1774, except this colony.
Georgia
This Canadian province was given the Ohio Valley as part of the 1774 "Intolerable" Acts.
Quebec
Name one of the three generals sent to relieve Thomas Gage as commander of British military forces in America.
William Howe, Henry Clinton, or John Burgoyne
Name given to the all-out economic boycott of Britain agreed to by the American Congress in the wake of the "Intolerable" Acts in 1774
Continental Association
Though known popularly as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting took place on this other less famous hill.
Breed's Hill
One of the "Intolerable" Acts passed by Parliament in 1774 to punish Boston included this law that permitted British soldiers to stay in the private homes of Bostonians.
Quartering Act
Along with Ethan Allen and the "Green Mountain Boys," he led the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 before leading the siege of Quebec (1775-76) - his first of several key actions during the war.
Benedict Arnold
Pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 that forcefully called for American independence.
Common Sense
Realizing that it would be more difficult than they originally thought to crush the rebellion in the American colonies, the British government recruited soldiers from this European state to fill their ranks.
Germany (not the modern Germany as we know it, but we would consider the soldiers to be German)