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laws calling for a tax on imported goods
Townshend Act
a tax on imported goods
tariff
law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies
Stamp Act
to cancel
repeal
a colonist who opposed British rule
law that allowed only on company to sell tea to the colonists
Tea Act
new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax
Sons of Liberty
a volunteer army
militia
Britain's law-making assembly
Parliament
militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony in only a minute's notice
minutemen
a war Americans fought for independence
American Revolution
when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
to provide shelter and food for a soldier
quarter
a formal meeting or law-making body
Congress
to refuse to buy something
boycott
land that is almost surrounded by water
peninsula
to move away from or escape an enemy
retreat
to try to work to reach an agreement
negotiate
a written request for something like rights
petition
Colonist who was on Great Britain's side
loyalist
freedom from the rule of others
independence
to owe money for something
debt
a person who doesn't take sides
neutral
to betray your country
treason