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.