History Ch. 8 Vocabulary

a war Americans fought for independence

• French and Indian War
• American Revolution
• King Phillip's War
• Civil War

Important battle that took place on Breed's Hill

• Battle of Trenton
• Battle of Breed's Hill
• Battle of Boston
• Battle of Bunker Hill

colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Tea Act
• Massachusetts Tea Party

new set of laws dictated by Britain to punish Boston for the Tea Party

• Townshend Acts
• Tea Acts
• Stamp Acts
• Intolerable Acts

a volunteer army

• minutemen
• militia
• allies
• Patriots

a volunteer group of colonists that could be ready to fight with only a minute's notice

• militia
• minutemen
• allies
• Patriots

Britain's law making assembly

• House of Burgesses
• Continental Congress
• Parliament
• the King

colonists who opposed British rule

• Loyalists
• Patriots
• militia
• minutemen

to cancel

• repeal
• tariff
• militia
• oppose

a group that led protests against the Stamp Act

• Patriots
• Sons of Liberty
• minutemen
• Loyalists