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Chapter 8

"Ben Franklin 5th Grade - Chapter 8"

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Parliament Britain's law-making assembly
Stamp Act law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed materials in the 13 colonies
repeal to cancel
Sons of Liberty groups of Patriots who worked to oppose British rule before the American Revolution
Townshend Acts laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported by the 13 colonies from Britain
tariff tax on imported goods
boycott organized refusal to buy goods
Daughters of Liberty groups of American women Patriots who wove cloth to replace boycotted British goods
Boston Massacre event in 1770 in Boston in which British soldiers killed five colonists who were part of an angry group that had surrounded them
Committee of Correspondence groups of colonists formed in the 1770s to spread news quickly about protests against the British
Tea Act law passed by Parliament in the early 1770s stating that only the East India Company, a British business, could sell tea to the 13 Colonies
Boston Tea Party protest against British taxes in which the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773
Intolerable Acts laws passed by British Parliament to punish the people of Boston following the Boston Tea Party
Patriots American colonists who opposed British rule
Loyalists colonists who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution
First Continental Congress meeting of representatives from every colony except Georgia, held in Philadelphia in 1774 to discuss actions to take in response to the Intolerable Acts
militia volunteer armies
minutemen colonial militia groups that could be ready to fight at a minute's notice
American Revolution the war between the 13 colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783 in which the 13 Colonies won their independence and became the United States
Battle of Bunker Hill costly victory for British troops over the Patriots in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the American Revolution on June 17, 1775
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