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Stamp Act
a 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
Townshed Acts
a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britian by the British colonies in North America
Boston Massacre
a clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed
committees of correspondence
one of the groups set up by the American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties
Boston Tea Party
the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party
martial law
temporary rule by military rather than civilian authority
minutemen
Patriot civilian soldiers just before and during the Revolutionary War, pledged to be ready to fight at a minute's notice
Second Continental Congress
the Continental Congress that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence and served as the only agency of national government during the Revolutionary War
Olive Branch Petition
a document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britian
Common Sense
a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britian
Declaration of Independence
the document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies' independence from Britian
Patriots
colonists who supported American independence from Britian
Loyalists
colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution
inflation
an increase in prices or a decline in purchasing power caused by an increase in the supply of money
profiteering
the selling of goods in short supply at inflated prices
Treaty of Paris (1783)
the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and settling the boundaries of the new nation
egalitarianism
the belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights