| First Contenental Congress | | Refuse to buy a certain item |
| revenue | | A search warrant that allowed British officers to search colonists' homes for smuggled goods |
| Patriot | | Led the Green Mountain Boys to capture a major British fort. |
| Stamp Act | | A governing body whose delegates agreed to form the Continental Army and to approve the Dec. of Independence. |
| Sons of Liberty | | One of the leaders of the expedition to invade Quebec and fight the British |
| Continenal Army | | A meeting of delegates from all colonies but Georgia to uphold colonial rights, |
| Declaration of Independence | | A lawer, cousin to Samuel Adams, who defended the British soldiers who shot the colonists in the Boston Massacre |
| King George III | | A law that required you to feed and house soldiers in times of war |
| artillery | | A secret society of colonists to oppose British policies |
| Boston Tea Party | | A clash between the colonists and British officers in which Crispus Attucks and 4 other colonists were killed |
| Quartering Act | | A series of laws that suspended New York's assemblies |
| Thomas Jefferson | | A member of the militia trained to respond at 'a minute's notice.' |
| Loyalist | | (use roman numerals) wanted to enforce the Proclamation of 1763 |
| committee of correspondence | | Composer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Samuel Adams | | A law passed by Parliament that required strict punishment for smugglers; also required taxes paid on sugar, molasses, etc |
| Lexington and Concord | | A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the Stamp tax |
| boycott | | A colonist loyal to England |
| Patrick Henry | | A colonist loyal to the new country |
| Benedict Arnold | | The son of a Native American mother and African father; died in the Boston Massacre |
| writs of assistance | | A messenger for the Sons of Liberty who spread the news of how the British soldiers were coming- by land or sea |
| militia | | income a government collects to cover expenses |
| John Adams | | A colonial force with George Washington as its commanding general. |
| Paul Revere | | Sites in Massachusetts of the 1st battle of the Revolution |
| Sugar Act | | A group of armed civilians pledged to defend their community |
| Crispus Attucks | | A leader of the Sons of Liberty |
| Ethan Allen | | A series of laws passed by Parliament to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| minuteman | | The dumping of 342 cases of tea in the Boston harbor by colonists dressed as Native Americans to protest the Tea Tax |
| Second Continental Congress | | Required all legal/commercial documents carry an official stamp showing taw had been paid |
| Townshend Acts | | A cannon or large gun |
| Boston Massacre | | The document in which the colonies declared independence from Britain |
| Intolerable Acts | | A group of people in colonies that exchange letters on colonial affairs |
