to cancel or do away with, often regarding laws

1766 - this law said that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies after outrage over the Sugar Act

1774 - this series of laws was also known as the Coercive Acts. This closed Boston Harbor and passed the Quartering Act

1765 - this law taxed a seal that was put on all paper goods

1764 - this law taxed imported sugar and molasses

1773 - this law allowed only one company to sell tea in the colonies

1767 - this law put taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea and allowed ships to be searched for smugglers.

1774 - this law allowed British soldiers to be housed by colonists

He spoke out against Parliament and formed groups such as the Committees of Correspondence and the Sons of Liberty, which challenged and protested British laws.

He convinced Virginia's House of Burgesses to support the idea that the Stamp Act violated colonists' rights

A group founded by Samuel Adams that encouraged the colonists to boycott British goods and challenged British laws.

On March 5, 1770, an argument between a British soldier and a colonist escalated and led to the deaths of five men. The British soldiers were defended by John Adams at trial.

A slogan spread throughout the colonies as a statement against Parliament's taxes in the colonies. Colonists were angered that they had to pay taxes but did not have representation in Parliament.

The secret society founded by Samuel Adams and John Hancock -that used scare tactics and violence against tax collectors. Organized the Boston Tea Party.

In December 1773, the Sons of Liberty led a protest against a tax, sneaking onto cargo ships and dumping 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

A sailor of mixed-race ancestry, considered to be the first casualty of the Revolution; he was shot by a British soldier on a Boston street

law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains