American Revolution Vocab

A 1765 law in which Parliament establish the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Committees of Correspondence

American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he also signed the Declaration of Independence

A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Intolerable Act

• Martial Law

A clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1700, in which five of the colonists were killed

One group set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties

The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act

King of Great Britain and Ireland; his issuance of the intolerable Acts and refusal to address colonial concerns helped trigger the American Revolution

• King William III

• King Edward IV

• King Arthur I

• King George III

A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party

• Martial Law

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

Temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority

• Martial Law

• Intolerable Acts

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute's notice