Chapter 8
Battle of Bunker Hill
A battle that took place on Breed's Hill where the British lost many soldiers.
Patriot
A colonist who opposed British rule.
Tariff
A tax on imported goods.
Militia
A volunteer army.
American Revolution
A war Americans fought for independence.
Boycott
Against imported goods.
Parliament
Britain's law-making assembly.
First Continental Congress
Group that led prtoests against the new Stamp Act tax.
Sons of Liberty
Important revolutionary battle that took place on Breed's Hill.
Stamp Act
Law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies.
Townshend Acts
Laws calling for a tax on imported goods.
Loyalist
Loyal to King George.
Minutemen
Militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minute's notice.
Intolerable Acts
New laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Daughters of Liberty
The Daughter's of Liberty supported the boycott of imported goods by making tea from herbs and berries and weaving cloths instead of using British wool.
Boston Massacre
The killing of five men in Boston by panicked British soldiers.
Repeal
To cancel.
Boston Tea Party
When colonists dumped tea in hte Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.
Tea Act
law that allowed onlu one company to sell tea to the colonists.